2023-11-01

On 30 October，the Seminar on "the Belt and Road" Climate Finance 2023 was officially opened in Beijing, sponsored by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment(MEE), co-sponsored by Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore, and organized by the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University(3E), Tsinghua-UFRJ China-Brazil Center for Climate Change and Energy Technology Innovation(CCBCE), the Wuxi Research Institute of Applied Technologies of Tsinghua University,

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2022-12-05

Huang Runqiu discusses China's biodiversity achievements, need for global cooperationMinister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu talks with Erik Nilsson in his office in Beijing. JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILYEditor's Note:The highly anticipated second phase of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity will soon start in Montreal, Canada. What should you expect? And what's China's role in the COP15 presidency? Erik Nilsson, a senior reporter at C

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2022-06-09

Seventy-one percent of the earth's surface is covered by water. As the cradle of life and the pulse of the blue planet, oceans nurture thousands of creatures, nourish human civilization and provide abundant seafood and energy.At World Oceans Day on June 8, let's protect every corner of the blue planet together!

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2022-06-07

While forging ahead with domestic green transition, China will proactively participate in global environmental governance with intensified international cooperation, Minister of Ecology and Environment Huang Runqiu said at a national event held in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province on Sunday.Upholding Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, China has made significant environmental improvement, he said while addressing the opening ceremony of the event themed "Building together a clean

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2022-05-30

Xie Zhenhua, China's special envoy for climate change, sits with US climate envoy John Kerry during a session of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos on Tuesday. [Photo/Agencies]Beijing, Washington call for concrete steps amid growing international challengesChina's special climate envoy, Xie Zhenhua, has said the world "cannot abandon" the Paris Agreement on climate change, and his United States counterpart, John Kerry, has said countries should not use the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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2022-05-10

At the September 2020 United Nations General Assembly, Chinese President Xi Jinping told other world leaders over a video link that China’s carbon dioxide emissions would peak before 2030 — and that the country would reach carbon neutrality by 2060.

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2022-03-29

A hybrid wind and solar power station near Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, northwestern China.Credit: Chen Xiaodong/VCG via GettyIn 2020, China announced an ambitious plan to reduce its carbon emissions — by 2060, 80% of its total energy mix will come from non-fossil-fuel sources. This will be crucial to help minimize future climate warming, because more than one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions are currently generated by China.“The biggest challenge we face is how to replace tradi

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2022-02-17

An alarming crackup has begun at the foot of Antarctica’s vulnerable Thwaites Glacier, whose meltwater is already responsible for about 4% of global sea level rise.

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