Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, Light in the Pandemic Tunnel
By Dan Steinbock
As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are only one quarter away, China is preparing for extraordinary games in the most challenging time. ...
China Will No Longer Build Overseas Coal Power Plants – What Energy Projects Will...
By Yixian Sun
Chinese President Xi Jinping recently announced at the UN General Assembly that China “will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad”.
Chinese banks have already...
China’s Energy Crisis Shows Just How Hard it Will Be to Reach Net Zero
By Jun Du
As the world prepares to discuss more aggressive cuts to carbon emissions at the UN’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, China has just sent...
How Special Soil Observatories in China are Helping to Create More Sustainable Agriculture
By Paul Hallett, Ganlin Zhang, Larissa Naylor, and Weikai Wang
All over the world, agriculture is threatened by degraded soils. Stripped of carbon from intensive farming,...
Extreme events in China require elevated vigilance, resilience
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
The economic impact of extreme flooding and the Delta variant may prove significant in certain regions but marginal nationwide. Preemption will...
Chinese Circular Economy: A Brief Overview
The world produces a huge amount of waste. In the United States alone, 13 tons of waste gets produced every single second. That amounts...
Why the Financial Services Sector Will Need to Embrace ESG
After the 2020 global pandemic, ESG investing has slowly started taking over the financial landscape. Even those who claimed it was just a passing...
Four reasons why G7 climate finance initiative will struggle against China’s Belt and Road
By Dr. Karen Jackson and Oleksandr Shepotylo
During the G7 summit in Cornwall, the group of nations unveiled a global initiative to help low and middle-income countries...
China Join Hands With EU On Green Investment
Environmental challenges and the deteriorating health of the planet is a long debate. It affects 100 million people every year. The book of Rachael...
Forget about the trade spat – coal is passé in much of China, and...
By Hao Tan, Elizabeth Thurbon, John A. Mathews and Sung-Young Kim (김성용)
Australian coal exports to China plummeted last year. While this is due in...
