Experts at a 14 October workshop, “Climate Action and Environment Protection: Pollutants and Greenhouse Gases Co-control,” reached consensus that co-control under China’s Air Law should be promoted at both the policy and implementation levels.The workshop was organized......
More than 110 companies in northeastern China that failed to reduce pollution will be severely penalized by the government, the national environmental watchdog said on Thursday.Three of the companies failed to cut their production under the emergency response ordered aft......
NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- China is getting better at monitoring its energy mix and its emissions, precisely because the country understands the climate threat and is working with the rest of the world to fight it, a U.S. expert has said.China is working hard to meet ......
China could decouple its economic growth from its carbon footprint by putting greater emphasis on transition to renewable energies and the improvement of energy efficiency, said the head of the United Nations Environment Programme.Air quality is a challenge shared by man......
Beijing converted 5900 T/h (tons of steam per hour) of coal-fired burners to gas, exceeding its target of 3579 T/h for boiler reconstruction. District heating boilers contributed 5286 T/h and industry boilers 614 T/h. Six districts met the no coal burning boiler target. ......
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 ......
