中国与世界，环境危机大家谈 CHINA AND THE WORLD DISCUSS THE ENVIRONMENT
October 30, 2009
A Chinese environmental update
China’s climate-change diplomacy has become increasingly feverish ahead of December’s UN talks, which could forge a new pact to fight global warming or end in rancor, Reuters reported. Chinese diplomats and advisers have echoed growing international gloom.
During US president Barack Obama’s planned mid-November visit to China, the United States seeks to “push towards as much common understanding” as possible, China Daily quoted the top American climate envoy as saying.
The recent memorandum of understanding between China and India may have had only “symbolic value”, but shows the nations are serious about dealing with climate change while attaining sustainable development, Asia Times reported, citing the UN’s climate chief.
China’s National Audit Office says funds equivalent to US$75 million, designated for controlling water pollution, were embezzled from 2001 to 2007, Caijing said.
A new study by Greenpeace has found high volumes of heavy metals and organic chemicals in the Pearl River, which provides drinking water for 47 million people.
Compiled by activists and inspired by prize-winning photos, a map pinpointing the location of some of the worst-polluted parts of China is making the rounds on the Chinese Internet, Radio Free Asia said.
Smog levels in Hong Kong have returned to the record high level registered in 2000, said Earthweek. In the past two months, factories in neighbouring Guangdong province have ramped up production to match an increased demand for goods.
China Three Gorges Corporation defended plans to raise the water level of the Three Gorges reservoir to 175 metres this year, saying such storage will help prepare for what could be worse drought along the Yangtze River in early 2010, Xinhua said.
Efforts to curtail expansion in China’s renewable energy sector should brighten prospects for the country’s more established wind equipment and solar companies, as curbs on excess capacity squeeze out smaller competitors, according to Reuters.
China took a big leap into the US renewable energy market, putting up US$1.5 billion for a wind farm in Texas with the power to light 180,000 homes, said the Associated Press.
Most regions reached their energy-efficiency targets, with only Sichuan and Xinjiang falling short, Xinhua reported.
China’s oil refining industry posted a net profit of US$9.8 billion in the first eight months of the year, Bloomberg News reported, as the government eased fuel-price controls.
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