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China’s first-ever disaster management regulation for heritage sites needs to mention climate change: Greenpeace
Beijing – China’s first-ever provincial-level regulation on natural disaster risk management for cultural relics will take effect in Shanxi province on February 1, outlining how to manage disaster risk for…
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China needs a law that protects its cultural heritage from climate change
It’s vital for the revised law to provide a forward-looking, preventive legal framework, ensuring the protection of China’s cultural heritage against the burgeoning threat of climate change.
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The Inconvenient Mind Part 2-Recommendations 1
If concern alone would trigger climate action, present awareness and concern levels of climate change by the middle class people around the world , would be sufficient to achieve the political and societal changes necessary. However scientists increasingly point to natural cognitive processes like ambivalence, anxieties and denial, triggered by the very concern about global…
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The Inconvenient Mind Part 1_ Scientific Theories
For more than 35 years scientists have been advocating that the psychological impact of both Global Warming and the way it is reported needs to be considered when designing campaigns to change people's perceptions, attitudes and behaviours to support climate policy and change to more sustainable life-styles. Such cultural change is a must in order…
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Data from the global plastics waste trade 2016-2018 and the offshore impact of China’s foreign waste import ban
An analysis of import-export data from the top 21 exporters and 21 importers .
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Jiangsu’s Vanishing Wetlands: Report
Based on fieldwork and satellite analysis conducted between March and November 2017, Greenpeace East Asia has identified immediate threats to Jiangsu’s wetlands, including to the habitat of the spoon-billed sandpiper.
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How Repairable is Your Mobile Device?
How repairable is your mobile device? Greenpeace teamed up with iFixit to assess the repairability of best-selling smart devices.
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Estimating Carbon Emissions from China’s Coal-to-Chemical Industry during the “13th Five-year Plan” Period
China’s coal-and-chemical industry has long been controversial for its high level of carbon emissions. In the recently released “13th Five-year Plan for Energy”, the coal-to-chemical industry was set a number of key construction regions. Meanwhile, global fossil fuel carbon emissions have seen a zero growth rate for three years in a row. The reduction in…
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Media Update: Beijing PM2.5 carcinogen concentration falls as less coal burnt
Beijing, 14 November, 2016 - In 2013 Greenpeace East Asia, in collaboration with the Public Health Faculty of Peking University, reported that PM2.5 in Beijing contained levels of the heavy metal and group 1 carcinogen, arsenic, 3.85 times higher than the national standard.[1] The report also found worryingly high levels of two other carcinogens, cadmium…
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Study on Economics of Coal-fired Power Generation Projects in China Report
After analyzing the thermal-power (coal-power) related phemonenon and data of the power sector in 2015, the mismatching of use and resources remains complex. With a 2.3% annual drop in thermal power generation and only 0.5% growth in total electricity consumption, the addition of installed capacity of coal-fired plants is incompatible with demand at 52,000 megawatts…