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Friday Five: New climate hope as China battles sea level rise
Friday news roundup highlighting the environmental news and commentary of the week. China, India, led slowdown in global coal development [Bloomberg] Huge news and new hope for the climate emerged this…
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Friday Five: the fight for Poyang lake and is China digging more coal?
China’s bumpy energy transition hit the headlines this week as the government eases curbs on production, China’s conservationists fight to protect one of the last habitats of the Yangtze finless…
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Friday Five: China calls out trump and Beijing’s smog worsens
China to Donald Trump: No, We Didn’t Invent Climate Change [Time] Oh how we LOL-ed when Donald Trump first posted what seemed like just another outlandish tweet back in 2012. Four years later, faced…
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G20 is over, now it’s time for action
zoom 09 October 2016 COP21 Earth Balloon Action in Paris © michapatault
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Greenpeace urges G20 governments to bring Paris Agreement into force this year
Beijing, 5 September 2016 - The Hangzhou G20 communique issued today brings climate change to the center stage of the global political agenda and sends a strong signal for all nations to join the Paris Agreement as soon as possible. Greenpeace urges governments around the world to bring the Paris Agreement into force by the…
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China’s 13th Five Year Plan hints at stronger climate ambition – Greenpeace
Beijing, 17 March 2016 - China's 13th Five Year Plan released today could indicate the world's largest carbon emitter will ramp its climate targets up within the next five years, just weeks after a recent paper also suggested that China’s emission may already have peaked.
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Greenpeace Response to China-France Joint Statement on Climate Change
Beijing, November 2, 2015 - A joint climate statement was released today by Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Francois Hollande. The statement made an incremental step forward while highlighting the ambition gap the world still needs to bridge.
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China begins the long march to Paris
In the politics of climate change, it doesn't get much bigger than this. The world’s biggest emitter last night announced how it intends to reduce its carbon emission beyond 2020.
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China submits post-2020 climate targets
Paris/Beijing, 30 June, 2015 – China submitted a carbon intensity reduction target of 60-65% by 2030, based on 2005 levels, to the UN as part of its climate plan (INDC), according to media reports. The announcement came as Chinese premier Li Keqiang was in Paris for an official visit to France – the presidency of…
