Diesel oil leak in yellow river(china)
A pipeline accident on 30th december just before New Year’s Eve that dumped a massive amount of diesel into two tributaries of China’s Yellow River.The spill occured on the Chishui river in northwestern Shaanxi province when a pipeline operated by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) ruptured due to local construction [...]
Read more...UN seals climate deal, but few are impressed
Copenhagen: UN climate talks avoided a total collapse on Saturday by skirting bitter opposition from several nations to a deal championed by the US President Barack Obama and five emerging economies including China.“Finally we sealed a deal,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The ‘Copenhagen Accord’ may not be everything everyone had hoped for, but this [...]
Read more...Fingers crossed as Copenhagen talks start
The Copenhagen climate change summit kicks off today in what will be a two-week marathon set of negotiations involving 15,000 delegates from 192 nations. The run-up to the talks saw a series of announcements by several of the world’s largest polluters pledging all sorts of commitments to reducing carbon emissions, but it has been China [...]
Read more...China eyes 40 per cent reduction of CO2 emission in 2020
China will reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 by 40 to 45 percent of the 2005 level, a ”voluntary action” which its State Council described as Beijing’s “major contribution to the global effort in tackling climate change.”
The State Council’s decision was relayed to the [...]