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Oct 28, 2024 | 
dialogue.earth | Joe Coroneo-Seaman |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
The UK closed its last coal power plant on 30 September, ending the use of coal for electricity in the country that built the world’s first such power station in 1882. It’s a milestone in the country’s efforts to slow climate change, and a stark difference from just a year ago, when then-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a rollback of net-zero policies, drawing criticism from climate experts.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
chinadialogue.net | Niu Yuhan |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
“In three years, I want to be a renewable energy engineer, using the skills I studied in China to contribute to the energy transition in the Philippines. I want to help solve the climate crisis we are going through,” Princess Agnila told China Dialogue. Agnila, 18, is among a group of Filipino students in China training to become renewable energy engineers. The three-year scheme was initiated by several environmental organisations based in the Philippines.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
chinadialogue.net | Mike Shanahan |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
For the past 12 years, Malaysian wildlife veterinarian Zainal Zainuddin has been quietly developing the world’s largest collection of living fig trees. Spread over three one-hectare sites in Sabah, northern Malaysian Borneo, it includes more than a thousand plants of 87 Ficus species. There are strangler figs, climbers – with figs bigger than tennis balls – and trees that produce figs on their trunks, or even on underground runners.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
chinadialogue.net | Jia Hepeng |Coroneo-Seaman Joe |Pan Yeheng
With a deal to transition away from fossil fuels recently signed by nearly 200 countries at the COP28 UN climate conference, the climate has once again been a topic of global conversation. But you’re unlikely to have heard it being discussed in China. That said, many studies have found a high level of climate change awareness in China.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
chinadialogue.net | Coroneo-Seaman Joe
In this year – the hottest in human history – much of consequence has happened on the global environmental stage. Key acts have included countries agreeing for the first time to language on transitioning away from all fossil fuels in a UN climate text; a legally binding agreement to protect life on the high seas; and progress, albeit stuttering, towards a treaty to terminate plastic pollution.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
chinadialogue.net | Fermin Koop |Joydeep Gupta |Cui Qiwen |Coroneo-Seaman Joe |Qiwen Cui
For the first time, countries have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis. The deal made at this year’s United Nations climate change summit, COP28, calls for countries to shift their energy systems in a just and orderly way, but includes loopholes that could affect emissions reductions.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
chinadialogue.net | Gao Baiyu |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
The electric vehicle (EV) sector in China, as elsewhere, has benefitted from government support in its early phase as an up-and-coming green industry. The government has been subsidising producers of EVs for public transport, taxis and the consumer market since 2009. EV consumers in China, moreover, have received purchase subsidies from the government for a number of years. More than 200 billion yuan (US$28 billion) was spent on EV subsidies and tax breaks in China over the 2009-2022 period.
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Nov 8, 2023 | 
chinadialogue.net | Catherine Early |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
The flow of international public finance going to developing countries to pay for adapting to climate change is 10-18 times smaller than what is needed, an updated assessment by experts has revealed. New and innovative sources of finance need urgently to fill the gap as climate disasters accelerate, they warn.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
chinadialogue.net | You Xiaoying |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
The “new three” has been a buzzword among Chinese officials and state media recently, as they highlight the strong performance of solar cells, lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles (EVs) in driving China’s exports this year. China accounts for more than 80% of the global solar cell exports, more than 50% of lithium-ion batteries and more than 20% of electric vehicles.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
chinadialogue.net | Catherine Early |Coroneo-Seaman Joe
The world is facing several environmental “tipping points” that are interrelated and could cause drastic changes to societies if unaddressed, scientists have said in a new report. Published by the UN University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU EHS), “Interconnected Disaster Risks” is designed to highlight the interconnections between the risks the world faces.
