From AP Via The New York Post By Associated Press November 27, 2019 BEIJING — China has realized its 2020 target for reducing carbon emissions ahead of schedule, the ecology and environment ministry reported Wednesday. The ministry said China’s CO2 emissions per unit of GDP had fallen last year by 4 percent from a year…
Guest sarcasm by David Middleton Some recent headlines: China is positioned to lead on climate change as the US rolls back its policies, September 12, 2019 Country Is Playing Leading Role in the Debate Over Climate Change, Beijing is a solid supporter of the Paris agreement’s principles, recent NY Times infomercial How China overtook the…
Guest opinion piece by David Archibald, To recap briefly, most of the communist countries collapsed by 1991 and the Western democratic tradition was seen as the winner of an existential battle that had waged since the Russian Revolution of 1917. Historian Francis Fukuyama called it “the end of history” because only good things would happen…
From CX Tech By Dave Yin / Sep 27, 2019 06:40 PM / Business & Tech Photo: VCG It’s “inevitable” that China’s electric cars have little resale value and some are inherently worth little, according to one of China’s top auto industry bodies. In its latest weekly update on China’s ailing auto market, the China…
From Bloomberg News September 2, 2019, 11:06 PM PDT Sales drop 14% in July to about 128,000 vehicles: Bernstein Slowdown highlights the effect of government subsidies Customers look at a Tesla Motors Inc. Model S electric vehicle at the company’s showroom in Hong Kong. Photographer: Billy H.C. Kwok/Bloomberg Global electric-car sales fell for the first…
From Reuters David Stanway, Muyu Xu SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Approvals for new coal mine construction in China have surged in 2019, government documents showed, with Beijing expecting consumption of the commodity to rise in the coming years even as it steps up its fight against smog and greenhouse gas emissions. Long-term cuts in coal consumption…
See the links in the “big picture paragraph” From MIT Technology review Worldwide funding of clean-energy projects fell to its lowest level in six years, in a staggering blow to the battle against climate change. The findings: BloombergNEF found that global investments in solar, wind, and other clean energy sources added up to $117.6 billion…
From The Daily Caller Tim Pearce | Energy Reporter The melting sea ice in the Arctic region might uncover a vast wealth of resources and open up new international trade routes, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday. Pompeo delivered remarks from Finland, where he attended a meeting of nations with territory in the Arctic…
From The Express UK BRITAIN has given thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ cash to help fracking in China, it has been revealed – to the anger of cross-party MPs. Foreign Office minister Mark Field has admitted since 2016 the department spent £87,000 on projects to improve the “environmental regulation of shale gas development in China”.…
From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor Plans like the Green New Deal could end up making the U.S. more dependent on China, according to reports. A new study found the U.S. would need to import more rare earth minerals from China to build more offshore wind turbines. “These demands would total over…