On January 29, 2021, China’s Central Environmental Inspection Team (CEIT) released an inspection report criticizing the National Energy Administration (NEA). The report claims that the NEA has failed to implement environmental protection policies properly. High-level central government agencies have rarely been inspected and openly criticized for numerous failures related to environmental protection and sustainable energy […]
Author: Tian Liao
At the UN Biodiversity Conference in October 2021, President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, announced the formal establishment of a network of five national parks, covering a total of 230,000 square kilometers and containing nearly 30% of the country’s key terrestrial wildlife species. One of these parks is called the Giant Panda […]
After being postponed three times, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity’s Fifteenth meeting, known as COP15, was held between October 11 and 15 in Kunming, China. The convention behind the meeting, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), was initially opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro […]