Huang Runqiu, whose country is presiding over the UN COP15 nature talks in Montreal, Canada said: ‘I am greatly confident that we can … keep our ambitions as well as achieve consensus.’
Author: South China Morning Post
Proposed government moves to ‘optimise’ environmental impact assessments of development projects should not cut corners in the name of efficiency.
Environment and Ecology Bureau says exemption size increase from 20 hectares to 50 hectares will help shorten the planning process.
Readers discuss the challenges posed by the world’s increasing population, and why Hong Kong should introduce stricter regulations to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills.
China will need to raise its 2030 renewable energy expansion targets if it wants to reach its goal of sourcing a quarter of its energy demand from non-fossil-fuel sources and to stay on track for its carbon-neutrality goal, climate analysts said.
Readers discuss the efforts made at the COP27 climate summit, and why it is unfair to ask developing countries to abandon fossil fuels.
China’s EV battery industry must look abroad for customers as it will soon have far more capacity than domestic car makers need, according to a report in a newspaper run by the State Council.
The industry is improving the sustainability of its global supply chains with the TfS initiative, which commits chemical companies with a combined turnover of US$616 billion to a framework of decision-making.
Environmentally friendly innovations are bubbling up in China’s fashion industry, such as a synthetic leather made from beer-brewing waste. But insiders call for more coordination to ensure progress toward climate-change targets.