Liu Lican

Jan 9, 2025 | agreenerlifeagreenerworld.net | Liu Lican

By Liu LicanChina’s first Biennial Transparency Report on Climate Change was released last week, and the country confirmed it has yet to peak its carbon emissions. The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China’s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021.

Jan 9, 2025 | dialogue.earth | Liu Lican

China’s first Biennial Transparency Report on Climate Change was released last week, in which the country confirmed it has yet to peak its carbon emissions. The report, which has been submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, discloses China’s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021.

Nov 28, 2024 | dialogue.earth | Liu Lican

Homeowners in a housing development under construction in Shanghai have been left disappointed after discovering the estate is next to a plot of “toxic land” containing soil and groundwater pollution beyond acceptable levels, reports Caixin. Only a road separates the Shanghai Pufa Hongwan Community housing development and the plot of toxic land, which was the former site of the Pudong electroplating factory, demolished in 2016, the report notes.

Nov 21, 2024 | dialogue.earth | Liu Lican

China will cancel or reduce export tax rebates for a number of products starting from December 1, including several related to energy transformation, according to a November 15 document jointly issued by China’s Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation. Li Chao, chief economist of Zhejiang Securities, wrote in Caixin that China’s total exports from January to October 2024 amounted to about CNY 20.8 trillion (USD 2.87 trillion).

Nov 14, 2024 | agreenerlifeagreenerworld.net | Liu Lican

Asia By Liu LicanOn November 8, China issued its first Energy Law, which aims to support the development and utilisation of renewable energy and increase the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption. The law, which will come into effect in January 2025, stipulates that the state will formulate long-term development goals, monitor the yearly development and utilisation of non-fossil energy, and institute a minimum proportion of renewables in energy consumption.