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  • | China is the biggest coal producer and the largest public financier of overseas coal fired power plants Photo Shutterstock Images | MR Online

    China halts new coal-fired power plants abroad in boost for climate action

    Originally published: South China Morning Star on September 22, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that China would stop building new coal-fired power plants abroad, marking a historic shift away from the fossil fuel before the United Nations climate summit in November.

  • | China lags in protecting fish and invertebrate stocks and aquatic plants as well as coral reefs Photo XinhuaChina lags in protecting fish and invertebrate stocks and aquatic plants as well as coral reefs Photo Xinhua China lags in protecting fish and invertebrate stocks and aquatic plants as well as coral reefs Photo Xinhua | MR Online

    Can China’s ‘red line’ eco strategy be a model for biodiversity?

    Originally published: South China Morning Star on September 6, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Sep 15, 2021)

    Authorities have set aside millions of square kilometres of land and sea as protected areas. It’s an ambitious plan but compliance still an issue, environmental group says.

  • | Despite overcapacity plans for coal power steadily expanded in China last year after the NEA relaxed restrictions on new coal power plants in 2019 Photo AFP | MR Online

    China’s energy watchdog under fire over pollution failures

    Originally published: South China Morning Star on February 1, 2021 by Echo Xie (more by South China Morning Star) (Posted Feb 11, 2021)

    China’s energy regulator has come under rare fire from a team of central government inspectors over the agency’s lax enforcement of environmental standards.

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    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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