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China Dialogue is an independent, non-profit website based in London. It was launched on July 3, 2006. chinadialogue is funded by a range of institutional supporters, including several major charitable foundations. chinadialogue is an independent organisation dedicated to promoting a common understanding of China’s urgent environmental challenges. Climate change, species loss, pollution, water scarcity and environment damage are challenges that concern all the world's citizens, and the scale of China’s problems gives them global importance.

Climate Crisis

The End of Coal? In Huge News for Climate, China to Stop Building new Coal Power Projects Overseas

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By Shi Yi | – ( China Dialogue ) – The mounting calls for China to stop supporting coal power projects overseas have received an answer. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced through a pre-recorded video address to the United Nations General Assembly on 21 September that China “will not build new coal-fired power plants abroad” […]

Climate Crisis

Nature-based solutions: the ‘no-regret’ routes to carbon neutrality

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By Zeng Nan, Jin Tong, and Zhang Xiaoquan | – ( China Dialogue) – The concept of nature-based solutions took root in China in 2019. Now it has been included in official documents from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), bringing the idea greater visibility in policy. […]

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Shanghai leads way in China’s carbon transition, but Does not have Much Time to Act

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By Shi Yi | – ( China Dialogue ) – Many Chinese cities and provinces are working on plans to hit peak carbon before 2030. Shanghai, China’s most developed city, is set to lead the way. Somewhere on the eastern side of Shanghai’s Chongming Island, 300,000 solar panels lie over rows and rows of aquaculture […]

Climate Crisis

Why Activists have Launched a Fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

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By Isabella Kaminski | – ( China Dialogue ) A fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty (FFNPT) initiative was formally launched last September by a coalition of academics, lawyers and activists. It’s modelled on the landmark UN Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons agreed in the 1960s, and is built around the same three pillars: non-proliferation, […]

Fossil Fuels

China’s National Carbon Market has Just Launched: How it Could be a Climate Game Changer

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By Huw Slater, Wang Shu and Dimitri De Boer | – ( China Dialogue) – With the new market having opened on 1 February, experts offer a take on how it may impact China’s industries and emissions trajectory China’s national carbon market started operating on 1 February, as mandated by a key regulatory document. Although […]

Climate Crisis

UN Trumpets Warning: Rich Nations aren’t Acting Urgently enough to cut planet-wrecking Carbon Dioxide Emissions

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By Catherine Early | – ( China Dialogue ) – New net-zero pledges are welcome but need to be met with rapid action in national climate plans, according to the UN Environment Programme. The number of countries committing to net-zero emissions goals by mid-century is a “significant and encouraging development”, the United Nations Environment Programme […]

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With US AWOL on Climate Leadership, are EU Members like Holland Turning to China?

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By Charlotte Nijhuis | – ( China Dialogue ) – Both countries have their work cut out to reach emissions-reduction goals, but China is already learning from Dutch expertise in offshore wind. With half of its territory below sea level, the Netherlands is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The country is a […]

Bangladesh

Climate Emergency is Drowning Bangladesh; is Dhaka Finally Dumping Coal?

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By Tom Baxter | – ( China Dialogue) – Bangladesh’s minister of power, energy and mineral resources, Nasrul Hamid, surprised energy watchers recently when he said the country is planning to “review” all but three of 29 planned coal plants. “We are keeping the three coal-fired power plants that are under construction. At present, we […]

Epidemics

Believe it or Not: Fighting the Coronavirus depends on Keeping our Oceans Healthy

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By Torsten Thiele, Marie-Christine Imbert and Timothy Bouley |- ( China Dialogue ) – We must think about how we emerge in a new and more sustainable post-crisis world that places living resources at its heart. When thinking about life on Earth, there is no better place to start than the ocean. Life was born […]