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Environment Archives – China Digital Times (CDT)
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Covering China from Cyberspace
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African Union Bans Donkey-Hide Trade in Response to Unsustainable Chinese Demand
At a recent summit in Ethiopia, the African Union (AU) decided to approve a 15-year continent-wide ban on the slaughter of donkeys for their hides. Donkey hides are a key component of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) ingredient known as ejiao (“donkey-hide gelatin”), whose demand in China has boomed over the past decade and decimated […]
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China, COP28 Post Mixed Progress in Curbing Climate Change
This week in Dubai, after two weeks of negotiations among representatives from almost 200 countries, the COP28 climate summit closed on a “historic” note: an agreement that calls for “transitioning away” from fossil fuels in order to avoid climate disaster. The deal was not without criticism, with some disappointed by the agreement’s relatively weak language, […]
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Interview: Lobsang Yangtso on Tibet’s Environmental Crisis
As the U.N. COP28 Climate Summit is underway in the United Arab Emirates, bringing together thousands of political leaders and environmental activists, one topic that is sure to get little attention there is the environmental crisis facing Tibet. Tibet is currently warming three times as fast as the rest of the world. It has the […]
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Kerry Meets Chinese Officials to Advance Climate Talks Amid Record Heatwave
As an extreme heat wave across Earth’s northern hemisphere fuels record-breaking temperatures in China, Europe, and North America, U.S. special envoy for climate change John Kerry is visiting Beijing this week for high-level discussions on climate-change issues. The resumption of dialogue that had stalled due to geopolitical tensions between the world’s two largest greenhouse-gas emitters […]
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Signs of Sino-U.S. Cooperation at COP27, But Climate Pledges Still Fall Short
At the halfway point of the COP27 international climate-change summit, there are encouraging signs that China and the U.S. may put aside geopolitical tensions in order to collectively stave off existential catastrophe for the world. However, both countries are currently falling short of the emission-reduction goals agreed upon in the 2015 Paris Agreement, and small, […]
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Newsletter Ambiente&Conflitti - Febbraio 2017
Survival: La lotta contro il riscaldamento globale devasta i popoli indigeni 
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