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Date: 27 May 2021
Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
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New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regardless, whatever the a
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New targets show nation s confidence in meeting environmental challenges
The new climate commitments President Xi Jinping made on Saturday show China to be a responsible major country, and they will inject new impetus into the world s climate progress, experts from international organizations said.
By 2030, China will lower its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by more than 65 percent from the 2005 level and will increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to about 25 percent, Xi announced at the Climate Ambition Summit via video link.
The new commitments, which came only three months after Xi announced that China aims to have carbon dioxide emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060, will offer a guide for the country as it forges ahead toward 2030, said Zou Ji, president of Energy Foundation China.