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En junio, la concentración media de las partículas PM2,5, perjudiciales para la salud, cayó en la capital china a los 18 microgramos por metro cúbico, informa hoy la agencia oficial Xinhua.
La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) recomienda que la concentración no supere los 20 microgramos por metro cúbico.
Dicho dato mensual marca un récord desde que existen registros de la calidad del aire en la ciudad, según la Oficina Municipal de Ecología y Medio Ambiente de Pekín.
Wang Xin, ingeniero del Centro de Control del Medio Ambiente de la capital, explicó a medios locales que la buena calidad del aire en mayo y junio se debió parcialmente a los vientos del norte y las precipitaciones, fenómenos que ayudan a disipar las partículas contaminantes y que se dieron con una mayor frecuencia de la habitual en dicha época.
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Biggest China Bank Abandons $3 Billion Zimbabwe Coal Plant
A crane unloads the first shipment of anthracite coal from U.S. supplier XCoal Energy & Resources LLC
(Bloomberg) China’s biggest bank dumped a plan to finance a $3 billion coal-fired power plant in Zimbabwe, dealing a blow to coal developers in Africa that see China as the last potential funder of their projects.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) told Go Clean ICBC, an ad hoc body representing 32 environmental groups, that it won’t fund the 2,800-megawatt Sengwa coal project in northern Zimbabwe, according to a June 18 email seen by Bloomberg. The message was sent to 350.org, one of the Go Clean groups. ICBC didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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30 Jun 2021
Five Asian nations account for 80 percent of the world’s newly planned coal power stations, according to a report published by the non-profit climate research think tank Carbon Tracker on Wednesday.
“China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and Japan are responsible for 80 percent of the world’s planned new coal plants and 75 percent of existing coal capacity,” Carbon Tracker wrote. “In these five countries, 92 percent of planned coal units will be uneconomic, even under business as usual, and up to $150 billion could be wasted.”
China, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Japan currently plan to build over 600 new coal plants between them, according to the report. The planned power stations are expected to generate “a total of 300 gigawatts of energy equivalent to around the entire electricity generating capacity of Japan,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) noted on June 30. The Asia-Pacific region consumed more than three-quarters o