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Poisoned groundwater sparks media storm in China
Publication date: Thu 28 Feb 2013
Document type: Article
A complaint about contaminated water in Shandong province has prompted widespread fears about the country's underground supplies.
Official calls for steps to protect farmland
Publication date: Fri 30 Nov 2012
China, the world's largest food consumer, finds itself faced with obstacles to preserving farmland amid its deepening urbanization, as well as to meeting the growing demand for farm products, a...
What Can Africa Learn from China’s Experience in Agricultural Development?
Publication date: Tue 7 Aug 2012
Document type: Article
The importance of agriculture and its potential for African development is widely acknowledged. African economies’ are mainly based on agriculture, which is at least twice as effective in reducing...
20 years of China's public voice
Publication date: Wed 20 Jun 2012
Document type: Article
Since the last Rio summit, China's way of doing things has changed: citizens have become players in environmental governance. Chang Cheng reflects on a civil-society journey. This article is adapted...
Book Review: Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia
Publication date: Fri 1 Jun 2012
Document type: Article
Review published in the African Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 2012. The book Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia (Belinda Yuen and Asfaw Kumssa...
Coping with the urban tsunami
Publication date: Tue 25 Oct 2011
Document type: Article
Our ever-expanding cities are set to swallow an area the size of Monglioa by 2030, writes John Elkington. The challenge is to turn them from centres of crisis into agents of a green revolution.
China's transformation paradox
Publication date: Tue 9 Nov 2010
Document type: Article
In order to finance the shift to a low-carbon economy, China first requires a period of high-carbon growth.
A structural problem: green buildings in Hong Kong
Publication date: Fri 5 Nov 2010
Document type: Article
Like many global cities, Hong Kong could radically cut its carbon emissions by making its buildings greener - but a regulatory black hole is hamerpering progress.
From sham to reality
Publication date: Wed 3 Nov 2010
China's existing "low-carbon cities" are mostly fakes, energty researcher Jiang Kejun tells Liu Jianqiang. For the sake of future economic strength, the government must give meaning to this slogan.
China and climate change in the post-Copenhagen era
Publication date: Fri 25 Jun 2010
Document type: Article
Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report shows the global surface temperature increased 0.74 °C in the past 100 years (1906-2005), mostly because of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions. More...
Why China could be leading the world on climate change
Publication date: Sat 29 May 2010
Document type: Article
There are two schools of thought about China’s role in climate negotiations since Copenhagen. The first sees China as the principal obstacle to progress at the talks. The second considers that, as a...
Dispelling illusions on China and climate change
Publication date: Sun 3 May 2009
Document type: Article
During my recent trip to Australia, I encountered two illusions about climate change that need to be dispelled. The first is that an ambitious outcome from the COP15 in Copenhagen this December...
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