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It has been a year since Chinas national carbon market started online trading on Jul 16, 2021. As of Fri, the cumulative trading volume of the carbon market reached 194 million tons, mak-ing it the largest carbon spot market in the world.

Money, dams and better planning are helping; climate change is not | China

What are the risks of conventional mining methods, and which recycling programs and initiatives are offering hope for a more sustainable future?

Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.” And thus, in 1952, the foundation was laid for what four decades later would become China’s most ambitious engineering project—a scheme to haul some 45 billion cubic meters of

HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - A new set of voluntary guidelines for Chinese companies to report environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics take effect on Wednesday (June 1), offering a glimpse of what mandatory disclosures might eventually look like in the country. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

State Council appoints, removes officials-

China has progressed in transitioning toward a greener economy, influential voices in global energy field said on Tuesday during the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF). And, energy supply issues serve as a wake-up call for all governments to ramp up new energy development and ensures energy security, experts said.

As the Chinese and US climate envoys met in a panel discussion in Davos on Tuesday, Chinese experts said it highlighted the room for cooperation on climate change amid bilateral tensions, while warning that the US inconsistency in global climate cooperation and tendency to politicize the issue deserves vigilance.

The south-pointing chariot is a Chinese invention that functioned in a similar way to a compass. Instead of pointing north, however, this device could point south, or any other direction it was ‘programmed’ to point in the first place, for that matter. The compass, which is regarded as one of the Four Great Inventions of the Chinese civilisation, functions based on the Earth’s magnetic field.

By Hiran H.Senewiratne The CSE opened with a 2.5 per cent gain, surpassing a turnover of over Rs 2 billion yesterday, a day after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointed opposition lawmaker Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister.The appointment of Wickremesinghe, who is seen as a politician who could help the country to face the ongoing economic crisis, […]