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For China’s post-COVID stimulus, big gaps in how much each province got, how they spent it: data
A province-by-province analysis of China’s post-COVID economic stimulus done by Greenpeace East Asia shows a widening split between provinces leading in the post-Covid green recovery and those lagging behind, especially coal-dependent provinces, with disparities in the amount of fiscal stimulus package and how they spent aid money.
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Samsung Electronics roadmap to 100% renewable energy
This report set out to identify key updates since 2018 relating to; Samsung’s growth and impact; growth and electricity use trend of the ICT sector including climate impacts; corporate uptake…
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Electricity consumption from China’s digital sector on track to increase 289% by 2035: Greenpeace
Electricity consumption from data centers and 5G base stations in China is on track to increase by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035, new research shows.
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Let’s Talk about Climate Change: Prentice Koo explains why Chernobyl still matters
Let’s travel back a decade ago to April 2011. Prentice Koo (aka Muk) was Greenpeace Hong Kong’s senior campaigner back then, overseeing the Climate and Energy project. It was also in that year which he visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
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Tencent beats out Alibaba, Baidu in Greenpeace’s China tech industry ranking
BEIJING, 21 April, 2021 – Tencent took the top spot among cloud providers in Greenpeace East Asia’s latest clean energy scorecard for China’s tech sector, beating out Alibaba, which fell…
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When the climate crisis strikes home
Covid-19 is not the only crisis we had to deal with this past winter. Huge areas of the northern hemisphere were in the grip of a brutal winter that left people without electricity, cars piled up, and homes snowed in. Texas went into an unprecedented deep freeze while record snowfalls in Japan left more than…
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Sandstorm spreads across East Asia, bringing orange skies and choking air pollution
On the morning of March 15, residents of Beijing awoke to their city shrouded in a suffocating orange haze, as winds carried a massive sandstorm thousands of kilometers from Mongolia.…
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With such beauty how can we not feel hope?
Satellite images taken from space show that we are living on a most marvelous planet -- filled with breath-taking wonders and inspiring nature. It’s time to briefly stop and take a good look at what we have to appreciate how crucial it is that we tackle the climate emergency. Honestly, in the face of such…
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Let’s Talk about Climate Change: Billy Lam shines the light on solar energy for everyone
Everyone knows that renewable energy is one of the key solutions to tackling the climate crisis, but have you ever thought about actually incorporating it into your life? Billy Lam…
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Greenpeace Report Finds Carbon Border Tax From Major Export Countries Likely To Incur a Levy of US$530 million Per Year
January 13, 2021 (Seoul) – A new report released by EY Korea and commissioned by Greenpeace Seoul suggests that if Korea’s response to the climate crisis is delayed, the competitiveness…
