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Hazy conditions disrupt air travel in China - Yahoo! News
"Poor visibility delayed about 280 domestic and international flights serving Beijing on Wednesday, the capital's airport said, following several days of heavy air pollution."
China, India push for 'patent free' green tech | EU - European Information on Innovation & Creativity
"As world leaders prepare for climate talks in Copenhagen next month, developing nations have tabled a controversial proposal which would effectively end patent protection for clean technologies"
More Streaming Trash: The Rampant Industrialization of China – Environmental, Political and Human Consequences
"Linfen, China’s coal capital was named the most polluted city in the world by the Blacksmith Institute, an organization that focuses on identifying heavily polluted areas and providing help to the people who live in them. A city of over 4 million, Linfen is literally choked by smoke from coal fires and steel mills, many which operate illegally to reap the financial rewards offered by China’s huge industrial activity. Much of the local population suffers from respiratory conditions and other pollution-related health problems. It is quite clearly an environmental catastrophe and one of the worst examples of industrial and economic growth at the sacrifice of human and ecological concerns."
China sets first targets to curb world's largest carbon footprint | Environment | The Guardian
"The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month, the government said today, as it unveiled firm targets for curbing the world's biggest carbon footprint for the first time.
A day after the US president, Barack Obama, confirmed he would attend the early stages of the conference, the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said Wen would join the gathering, which aims to set a global strategy for reducing emissions.
China announced that it would cut emissions of carbon relative to economic growth by 40% to 45% by 2020 compared with 2005 levels."
China invests in methane capture - Telegraph
China, a massive consumer of fossil fuels and coal in particular, is trying to modernise its mines by containing emissions of methane and turning the gas into a source of much-needed energy.
China’s carbon intensity targets explained
China has set what would at 1st glance appear to be ambitious GHG reduction targets. However a deeper look and you start to see that all is not as it seems.
Amazing Pictures, Pollution in China | ChinaHush
October 14, 2009, the 30th annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
Horrific images of pollution in China
Green Inc. Column - Tempers Flare Over Chinese Involvement in Wind Farm Planned for Texas - NYTimes.com
"News last week of the first major influx of Chinese capital and wind turbine manufacturing expertise into the renewable energy market in the United States — a 600-megawatt wind farm planned for the plains of west Texas — had many readers of the Green Inc. blog in a state of agitation."
Obama and Hu agree on a successful climate conference - COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009
"US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao commit themselves to strive for a wide consensus and a successful Copenhagen climate change conference. "
Chinese Town's Response to Poisonous Lead Factory: Move the Town : TreeHugger
"Increasingly, concern over environmental health in cities and towns across China has led to angry public protests that have halted construction on or closed a number of factories. But after outrage over lead poisoning in a town in central China, authorities aren't turning off the smelters at fault. They're moving the whole town. "
The New Sputnik
Most people would assume that 20 years from now when historians look back at 2008-09, they will conclude that the most important thing to happen in this period was the Great Recession. I'd hold off on that. If we can continue stumbling out of this economic crisis, I believe future historians may well conclude that the most important thing to happen in the last 18 months was that Red China decided to become Green China.
Warming will cause wheat price to triple
China and a few other nations will see better conditions for growing wheat, but on a global scale production will shrink dramatically as temperatures increase, new study shows. Rice and corn also affected
China unveils plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines
China has announced plans to build 42 new high-speed railway lines over the next three years.
In a breakthrough, China has developed trains that can run on both high-speed and normal lines, said railway official Zhang Shuguang.
A 500km/h train will be tested by the end of next year, Mr Zhang said
IBM Press room - 2009-09-16 IBM, Shenyang, and Northeastern University Collaborate to Create Smart, Eco-City - United States
IBM, the City of Shenyang, and China's Northeastern University announced they are embarking on a major "smart city" collaboration effort focused on enabling Shenyang to improve the lives of its citizens by meeting its environmental responsibility goals.
Wind power could cut China's emissions by 30%, US study finds | Environment | guardian.co.uk
China's energy needs are expected to double by 2030, but a study in the journal Science says the country could produce 30% less CO2 if it uses wind power to meet them
Australia overtakes US as worst per-capita carbon-dioxide polluter : Environment
Australia has overtaken the United States as the country that produces more carbon dioxide per person than any other, the British risk assessment company Maplecroft Ltd said Friday. Canada, the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia rounded out Maplecroft's list of the top five per-capita emitters of greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.
2GW Power plant capable of powering over 3 million Chinese homes being developed by First Solar
China will soon possess the world’s largest photovoltaic power plant, which will have the capacity to power up to 3 million Chinese homes with a whopping 2000MW of solar electricity. The $6 billion power plant will be constructed by US-based First Solar and construction is expected to commence next year.
China villagers riot over polluting plant: residents - Yahoo! News
Villagers in southeastern China attacked police and took local officials hostage in protests over a wastewater treatment plant they accuse of pollution, residents and state media said Tuesday.
Police had to intervene in a bid to rescue two officials taken captive in the unrest in the city of Quanzhou in coastal Fujian province, residents told AFP.
They said anger over a foul smell emitted by the plant and suspicions that it was polluting the local environment had been building for years.
Student worker at Coca-Cola plant beaten after seeking wages in arrears | CLB
A university student-worker at Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, was threatened and beaten by the managers of a labour supply company after he sought wages in arrears on behalf of himself and his colleagues, the Hong Kong-based pressure group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) reported today.
NewNet News - ReneSola to begin 150MW on-grid solar power project in China
Chinese solar energy company ReneSola has been granted the right to develop a 150MW on-grid solar power project in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of Wuzhong City.
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