Cleaner Greener China

Using some very interesting caricatures, Greenpeace has put together a top 10 list of ways Chinese firms often hide their pollution.  Some of these are old hand, but a couple (including consolidating of waste streams) were new to me.
Many companies – domestic and international alike – simply break them because it’s cheaper to do so [...]

With China’s energy production closely tied to the global economy, it should come as no surprise that Beijing’s skies have cleared up recently as a result of the downturn:
In the second half of last year, a period that included the Olympics in August, Beijing recorded its lowest air pollution readings since 2000, according to data [...]

China Strategically Evaluates Five Environmental Regions details the recent decision to classify the Bohai Region, Taiwan Straight, Beibu Bay, Chengdu, and Chongqing as Strategic Environmental Regions
If you have been to Bohai Region (Tianjin) or Chongqing, then you may be scratching your head, but it appears that this is a measure to improve things vs. grant [...]

While attending the JUCCCE conference last year, I began to understand that when looking at clean technologies, or otherwise making the case for “sustainability”, it was important to understand the health costs to remaining brown.
That in the end, policy makers and agency officials would eventually connect the dots and begin making investments into sustainability as [...]

For years, the warnings of a deteriorating environment on the health of the Chinese population have been there, and over the last 2 years it is clear that these warnings have grown in number and in urgency.
However, to date, there has been no official release that has directly linked the two.
Until now:
A five-year study on [...]

RAdio Television Hong KOng has just released a very powerful series on the impact of China’s environment called China’s New Faces – Give Me Back the Natural Scenery:
Produced by Anita Tong, the filming took place in the area around Hangzhou and Nanyang, and if I could somehow require you to spend the 18 minutes to [...]