中国与世界，环境危机大家谈 CHINA AND THE WORLD DISCUSS THE ENVIRONMENT
November 06, 2009
A Chinese environmental update
China is weighing the prospect of reaching only a framework agreement at UN climate talks in December, but would want guarantees that principles laid out in previous deals would be retained, Reuters quoted vice-foreign minister He Yafei as saying.
Premier Wen Jiabao said China will insist that next month’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen build on current treaties that limit the obligations of poor countries in controlling greenhouse-gas emissions, according to Reuters.
Government scientists in Beijing have been criticised by the public for inducing a heavy snowfall that snarled traffic, delayed air travel and left city residents shivering, Agence France-Presse quoted state media as saying.
The Asia Society and the Center for American Progress have released “A Roadmap for US-China Collaboration on Carbon Capture and Sequestration”, available in both Chinese and English.
Customs officials across China have been ordered to check every container labeled waste after mountains of discarded foreign garments were found in coastal Guangdong province, China Daily reported.
Apart from raw resources in its relationship with Africa, China also gets a chance to earn the global respect it believes it deserves in recognition of its growing economic clout, and friends who do not judge or fear it, according to Reuters.
More landslides and other hazards will occur around the Three Gorges reservoir as its water reaches maximum level, according to consultants cited by Caijing.
Officials in China have called for special laws to halt pollution of the country’s thousands of lakes, which are drying up at a rapid rate, Agence France-Presse reported.
China’s installed capacity of nuclear power is expected to top 70 gigawatts by 2020, 75% higher than the government target, Caijing quoted scientists as estimating.
Well-head natural gas prices are likely to be raised by 20 to 30% under a new Chinese pricing regime expected to be in place in January, Caijing reported.
In an assessment of Lake Dianchi, all seven freshwater snail species and 12 of the 13 freshwater fish species new to the IUCN “Red List” were found to be threatened, WWF said.
Rare tiny black and white shrimp raised in Taiwan are selling for as much as US$830 each to collectors in Japan, despite their short life spans and problems breeding, according to Reuters. Farming the King Kong shrimp on small plots of land generates little pollution, breeders say.
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