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BIOMASS ENERGY TO PROVIDE HEAT, FUEL By LIU YUKUN | China Daily Global | Updated: 2021-04-15 00:00 Reusing leftover organic matter part of strategy for emissions reduction targets
From plants and wood, to crops and animal droppings, all of these examples of organic waste could soon become important energy sources to heat homes and fuel cars.
Biomass, such as agricultural and forestry products, organic household waste as well as livestock and industrial refuse are some of the biological materials used as fuels in producing electricity and heat.
Biomass can be burned directly for heat, or converted to renewable gaseous and liquid fuels through thermal, chemical and biochemical processes.
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Reverse anti-globalization climate trend
History has proved that globalization is an irreversible trend. The technological revolution is profoundly reshaping the world’s socioeconomic development and binding communities in a “global village”. However, while globalization has brought huge economic benefits to the world, by improving the distribution of production factors such as technology and capital, the ever-worsening climate crisis necessitates all countries work out new solutions to curb the temperature rise and provide better environmental governance.
Although global energy consumption dropped by 4 percent in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to lower carbon emissions, the trend of growing CO2 emissions remains unchanged.
Experts say change for nature will spur better development By ZHANG YUE/ZHENG XIN | China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-15 09:05 Share CLOSE Workers check grid-connected facilities at a photovoltaic power plant in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. JIA MINJIE/FOR CHINA DAILY
Experts and business leaders have hailed the Chinese government s new guideline on building an economic system with accent on green, low-carbon and circular development.
The policy will promote overall green transformation of the economy. It will also stimulate high-quality development, helping reach the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030, said Lin Boqiang, dean of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy and also a professor at Xiamen University.
Experts and business leaders have hailed the Chinese government s new guideline on building an economic system with accent on green, low-carbon and circular development.
The policy will promote overall green transformation of the economy. It will also stimulate high-quality development, helping reach the goal of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030, said Lin Boqiang, dean of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy and also a professor at Xiamen University.
The State Council, China s Cabinet, issued a circular on Feb 22 urging green efforts in development.
By 2025, industry, energy and transportation systems will see noticeable improvement in this direction as manufacturing, economic circulation and consumption systems embrace the new philosophy, experts said.