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Saving China from itself: How world's biggest polluter dealing with climate change
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Age: The undulating hills of Ningxia have been home for Hai Zhengjun ever since he chiselled out a cave shelter on the side of a ridge with a pickaxe and shovel in the 1970s. The 64-year-old has learned never to take water for granted, having spent all his life rearing sheep and sowing crops of wheat and corn in an area environmentalists identify as among China's driest and most ecologically vulnerable. The central and southern parts of the region, which sprawl across the Loess Plateau and are home...
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China Is on Track for the Biggest Reduction in Coal Use Ever Recorded
2015-05-15 15:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: China is cutting down on its coal habit. In the first four months of 2015, the country consumed almost 8% less coal than in the same period a year earlier, according to a report by Greenpeace/Energydesk China. This means China's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by around 5% in the first four months of the year, according to the report. That's a lot--roughly equal to the volume of CO2 emissions spewed by the entire UK during that same period, as Greenpeace/Energydesk China notes. If the trend...
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China Poised Top U.S. As Biggest Cause Of Modern Global Warming
2015-04-13 16:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: China is poised to overtake the United States as the main cause of man-made global warming since 1990, the benchmark year for U.N.-led action, in a historic shift that may raise pressure on Beijing to act. China's cumulative greenhouse gas emissions since 1990, when governments were becoming aware of climate change, will outstrip those of the United States in 2015 or 2016, according to separate estimates by experts in Norway and the United States. The shift, reflecting China's stellar economic...
U.S. & China, world's biggest carbon polluters, announce new climate goals
2014-11-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The United States and China announced new goals for reducing their global warming pollution in the coming decades, with the U.S. ramping up its rate of decarbonization in five to 10 years and China promising that its carbon emissions will peak in the next 15 years. The announcements, which came at a multinational summit in Beijing Tuesday, made clear for the first time the commitments that the two biggest sources of greenhouse gases will make as part of the urgent United Nations negotiations....
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BMW Sees China as Biggest Electric Car Market by 2019
2014-05-29 06:47:31| Automakers - Topix.net
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG predicts China will become the world's largest market for electric vehicles as more charging infrastructure is built and the government promotes cleaner cars to cut pollution.
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