Highlights of the proposed Green Development package in the 13th Five Year Plan include exploring the establishment of a cross-regional environmental protection agency, cultivating and developing markets for pollution discharge rights trading, and building a green develo......
China launched seven pilot emissions trading systems (ETS) in 2013, as testing grounds for a national ETS. With the Joint Presidential Statement on Climate Change, China confirmed its plan to launch a national ETS in 2017, and work has already begun to develop the necess......
Only 9 percent of people in China live in an environment that meets the national air quality standards, according to a scientific journal article. The article, published in a scientific journal of the Nature Publishing Group Scientific Reports on October 15, and authore......
Haikou, Xiamen, Fuzhou, and Guiyang met the daily air quality standard, while Hengshui, Jinan, and Xingtai met the standard less than 50 percent of the time. For those cities failing to meet targets, ozone was the primary pollutant, followed by PM2.5. In general, the Jin......
China’s efforts to clean up its air, soil and water have contributed to the country’s economic slowdown, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said in a report commissioned in response to criticisms that anti-pollution measures have waged an excessive price on heavy ......
Almost 78 percent of complaints the public made to the national environmental watchdog on its hotline in the first half of this year was about air pollution.However, the authority needs to improve its services to deal more effectively with the complaints, some hotline us......
BEIJING - The Ministry of Environmental Protection received 696 public tip-offs about pollution in the first half of the year, more than 75 percent of them about air pollution, it said on Monday.Others involved water, noise and waste pollution, according to a ministry st......
BEIJING - China saw an "overall improvement" regarding air pollution from burning straw this summer, the Ministry of Environmental Protection reported Friday.Northern farmers traditionally burn straw after harvest and plough to bury the ashes in the ground, which they be......
Since 2011, the Chinese government has made significant progress in developing comprehensive air quality plans, by adopting new ambient air quality and emission standards, deploying more than 1,000 new air quality monitors, and establishing stringent air quality improvem......
Qi Ye, director of public policy centre in Beijing, says China is showing 'global leadership' on climate change and it will look to clean energy technologiesChina may aim for an earlier greenhouse gas emissions peak before its 2030 deadline, putting a greater onus on Aus......
