Abstract:China has 365 environmental protection courts, collegiate panels and circuit courts – but the number of cases heard is low. For instance, in Jiangsu province, home to the Yangzte River Basin industrial belt, over 50,000 enviromental complaints and petitio
Abstract:The Chinese economy would benefit from a faster switch to renewable energy and a reduction in carbon emissions, says a new report.Following on from president Xi Jinping and Barack Obama’s climate pledgesearlier this month, a study launched in Beijing by t
Abstract:In the nation’s 13th Five-Year Plan, the leaders of China should, once and for all, enshrine the principle that protection of the public’s health and the nation’s water, air and other critical natural resources is of the same importance as economic pros…
Abstract:In 2011, Miyun resident, Liu Yuying, found a large number of opened bags filled with an unidentified gray powder dumped on a plot of land that she was planning to use for agriculture. The waste came from KB Autosys, a Korean company producing 300,000 sets
Abstract:Real progress in improving Chinas health and environment will take integrated policies that address regional differences and inequalities, say Jennifer Holdaway and Wang Wuyi. Over the last year or so, people living in China have been bombarded almost dai
Abstract:Dietary shifts to meats, sugar and oils are creating a health and environment crisis that Chinese officials ignore, says Barry Popkin, coordinator of the China Health and Nutrition Survey… Source: China Dialogue, https://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show
Abstract:The price of environmental degradation and pollution is expressed in human suffering, in impaired development, in remediation costs, in lost days and lower quality of life. Just over a year ago, in July 2013, a report published in the US journal Proceedi