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Chinese Environmental News

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New report puts China ahead
Apr 1, 2010 (WiC 55)

It may be producing more carbon dioxide than any other country, but it could also be “winning the clean energy race”, according to a new study. The Pew Charitable Trusts’ research found that China spent nearly double its nearest rival on ...

Organic growth…

A new plan in Guangzhou to turn food waste into fertiliser
Apr 1, 2010 (WiC 55)

China’s economy may be growing faster than most at the moment. But so is the amount of garbage that it’s generating - and policymakers are having to search for solutions. In Guangzhou, where officials have met public resistance to burning ...

Swiss giant buys Chinese water
Mar 26, 2010 (WiC 54)

In China, those who can afford it are very picky about the water they drink. Tap water is notoriously unreliable, so most turn to the bottled variety. That’s why Nestlé sees a big opportunity – hence its recent purchase of a majority stake ...

Severe drought highlights China’s water woes
Mar 26, 2010 (WiC 54)

Six months of failing rains have left riverbeds dry and reservoirs empty. The worst drought in a century across China’s southwest could signal a stark new reality of water shortages which may set limits to China’s growth. Of course, that ...

A burning issue

No more incinerators, protests propertied middle class
Feb 5, 2010 (WiC 48)

In China, getting a big project approved can be a murky process. And that’s hardly inspiring for residents who live nearby – especially when that project involves burning garbage. Twice last week, hundreds of residents marched through the ...

Battle of the bulb

Eco light bulb has poisonous downside
Jan 15, 2010 (WiC 45)

Qin Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor, united the country by force and guile. But he dreamed of eternal rule, so his doctors prescribed him longevity pills mixed with mercury and jade. It didn’t work. The emperor grew increasingly ...

Blonde ambition

Tetra Pak's Chinese goal: to recycle 27 billion cartons a year
Jan 8, 2010 (WiC 44)

Tetra Pak introduced its first beverage carton in 1952. Back in the Fifties, sales to China would not have been high on the agenda for the Swedish packager. In fact, it took 40 years for the Tetra Pak to make the journey east, for a first ...

Emission impossible?

China makes carbon intensity commitment on eve of climate conference
Dec 4, 2009 (WiC 41)

Three feet of ice is not the result of one cold day, the Chinese proverb notes. And change isn’t expected overnight either when it is global warming – rather than freezing – that is the issue in question. But are there signs that some ...

How China Mobile recharged

Telco's energy savings equivalent to taking 1.7 million cars of the road
Nov 27, 2009 (WiC 40)

Last week, China Mobile announced that it had agreed with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to reduce its power consumption by 20% by the end of December 2012. The savings translate to a whopping 11.8 billion kilowatts/hour ...

The worm that turned

Boom in natural remedy leads to holes across the Tibetan plateau
Nov 20, 2009 (WiC 39)

For greed all nature is too little, warned the Roman philosopher Licius Seneca. The saying seems an apt one today, when overexploitation is a common phenomenon. Objects of rarity and plants or animals with medicinal properties often suffer ...

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