China Climate Change

• China extends hydro rationing amid ongoing brush fires and drought

  More than 1,500 residents had been moved to shelters, while around 5,000 civilian and military personnel had been mobilized to put out the blazes, China news agency says.

  World

  Aug 22, 2022
  
• Death toll in China floods hits 33 as clean up begins

  Residents in China took to social media to seek assistance as lakes and rivers overflowed and water and electricity were cut due to the flooding.

  World

  Jul 22, 2021
  
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• Death toll climbs to 25 as severe flooding flows through central China

  Weather officials in China have called the system heaviest rains in 1,000 years. It comes amid other severe weather incidents in the world, including floods in western Europe.

  World

  Jul 21, 2021
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• China must overhaul its vast power grid to meet climate pledge, analysts say

  One of China's biggest challenges to meet its pledge to cap carbon emissions this decade is overhauling its electricity grid, officials and analysts say.

  World

  May 19, 2021
• China leads the world in coal and clean energy, baffling experts

  China burns about half the coal used globally each year.

  Environment

  Dec 2, 2019
• China’s greenhouse gas emission targets at risk amid trade war with U.S.

  China, the world's biggest producer of climate-warming greenhouse gases, has pledged to bring its emissions to a peak by around 2030.

  World

  Aug 30, 2019
• Climate change not a hoax that we invented: China to Donald Trump

  China is pointing out that climate change talks were initiated by Trump's Republican predecessors in the 1980s.

  Environment

  Nov 16, 2016