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promos: promoplf@gmail.com Biography For over ten years now, the name Patric La Funk has been a guarantee for emotion-packed electronic dance music, with a diversity that spans through the whole spectrum of the genre. With tracks like “Autosave” and gigs in some of the most renowned clubs in the world, Patric has become a top player on the international music scene. Energy filled tracks and crowd moving live sets have become a trademark for the man named Patric La Funk. Gigs all over the wor ...
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Barriers to renewables in the Belt and Road Initiative - with Bai Yunwen and Ma Tianjie
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In today's podcast, we’re talking about why it’s been so difficult to get financing for renewable energy in the Belt and Road, also known as the Belt-Road-Initiative or BRI. (Note the podcast was recorded prior to the announcement that China would pursue carbon neutrality by 2060.) Our first guest is Ma Tianjie, Tianjie is managing editor of China …
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Emergency Podcast! Expert Panel Dissects China's 2060 Carbon Neutral Shocker
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We don't do this often, but in today's podcast we address some breaking news: President Xi Jinping's announcement that China will peak carbon emissions before 2030 and set a new goal of net-neutral carbon emissions by 2060. The speech, delivered remotely to the United Nations during Climate Week, caught energy and climate watchers by surprise. In t…
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Clean energy and China’s long road to power market reform
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Renewable energy is the key to reducing China's carbon emissions, and for many years experts have seen electricity markets as essential to the promotion of clean energy. In this episode, we check in with a leading U.S. expert on China's power sector, Michael Davidson, to discuss two recent papers he has published on the topic of power markets and r…
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What's driving Corporate ESG in China?
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In today's podcast, we talk to two private sector experts working on the topic of corporate ESG - which refers to corporate policies and performance on the environment, sustainability, and governance. In the first part of the episode, we focus on the policies that have driven companies in China towards greater emphasis of ESG, and which companies a…
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What's Up with Carbon Trading in China - with Yan Qin and Stian Reklev
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You have probably heard China's carbon market described as the largest carbon market in the world. That's only proper, since China is the largest carbon emitting country and the carbon market will cover the coal power sector, which accounts for around half of the country's emissions. 2020 was originally billed as a major year for climate policy, bo…
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What to expect for renewable energy in the 14th Five-Year Plan: A Ben Webinar
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It's been a busy year for energy policy in China, and we're only in the beginning of July. This summer and fall are crucial periods in the design of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and many listeners are already aware that there are big issues at stake for climate and the environment. In today's podcast, we're releasing the audio of a Beijing Energy Netwo…
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The Race for Alternative Protein in China - with Chloe Dempsey
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In this week's podcast, we sit down with Chloe Dempsey to talk about meat, alternative protein, and the environment in China. Chloe is a research fellow at the Cellular Agriculture Society and Yenching scholar at Peking University, where she is completing a Master’s of Economics. Chloe’s thesis focuses on the market for cultured meat in China, with…
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How Green Bonds are Changing Infrastructure Investment in China and Abroad - with Xie Wenhong, Climate Bonds Initiative
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Asia is the world's top region for infrastructure investment, and these investments need to be sustainable in order to meet the Paris Climate Agreement goals and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A fair number of standards now exist to help investors assess the sustainability of infrastructure, and one of those specific to the debt mar…
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China, energy security, and oil and gas markets - with Michal Meidan
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Energy security was already a hot issue in China well before the global oil price collapse and Covid crisis. Now, as the country listens to the government list its coming priorities during the long-delayed Two Sessions of the National People's Congress, energy security is topic Number One. In this episode, we sit down with Dr Michal Meidan, Directo…
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Lauri Myllyvirta - Covid19, energy, and emissions - Part 2 Q&A
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This is the second part of a two-part episode featuring Lauri Myllyvirta, an air pollution and climate expert from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. Lauri has over 10 years of experience as an air pollution and climate expert. He has led numerous research projects on air pollution, assessing air quality and health impacts of energy p…
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Lauri Myllyvirta - Covid19, energy, and emissions - Part 1
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This is the first part of a two-part episode featuring Lauri Myllyvirta, an air pollution and climate expert from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. Lauri has over 10 years of experience as an air pollution and climate expert. He has led numerous research projects on air pollution, assessing air quality and health impacts of energy po…
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Brainstorming Ideas for a Green Stimulus in China
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China, like other major countries, is actively working on measures to stimulate the economy and recover from the coronavirus. The question is, how can China make its stimulus measures as green and beneficial for the economy as possible? In this episode, we cover what types of stimulus have been done in the past, what the principles should be for gr…
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Coronavirus: Impacts on wildlife and climate
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In this special mini-episode of Environment China, we again talk to Li Shuo of Greenpeace, following up on his earlier interview on the Biodiversity COP, as well as discussing how the recent crisis in China could affect the country's policies and efforts on the broader topics of biodiversity, wildlife protection, and climate change. Li Shuo referen…
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Beijing's Pursuit of Clean Air - An Interview with Lauri Myllyvirta
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Although Beijing still frequently suffers from stretches of heavy air pollution, the city has made astonishing improvements since the Airpocalypse of 2013, when for several days readings of PM2.5 (particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter, the most dangerous type of pollution in regional air pollution) literally went off the charts of th…
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Global Energy Interconnection: The Dawn of the Global Power Grid?
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In this episode, our panel sits down with Edmund Downie to discuss China’s vision for a Global Energy Interconnection, or 全球能源互联网 in Chinese. Downie is an energy analyst with the Analysis Group in Boston, and former Fulbright Scholar at Yunnan University in Southwest China. In past roles with Yale and the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, Do…
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Just Act Naturally! China and Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change
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Biodiversity loss and climate change have may of the same causes: ecosystem destruction both releases carbon into the atmosphere and shrinks the area available for threatened species to survive. Nature-based solutions are emerging as a framework to address these challenges together. Most recently, China and New Zealand were named co-chairs of the N…
This week we join past guest and recent host, Anders Hove, for a journey to Inner Mongolia, Northern California, and Central Europe, where he recently tested the charging infrastructure on three long-distance electric vehicle road trips. We examine how EVs compare on fueling cost, emissions, and convenience, and discuss how the experience compared …
Li Shuo, Senior Global Policy Advisor at Greenpeace East Asia, gives a preview of the biggest issues on the table at the climate COP (Conference of the Parties) this year in Madrid, and what role China will likely play in the proceedings. Li Shuo's official bio: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/li-shuo Li Shuo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lis…
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China Data Centers and Renewable Energy, an Interview with Ye Ruiqi
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China's data centers currently consume over 2% of China's electricity production and that share is growing quickly. In today's episode, we sit down with Greenpeace East Asia's Ye Ruiqi to discuss how some companies are turning to renewable energy to meet the growing need for clean energy to power data centers. A link to the report Powering the Clou…
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Guide to China Climate Policy with Columbia's David Sandalow
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Professor David Sandalow is the Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. Prior to Columbia, David served in senior positions in the US government – at the White House, State Department and US Department of Energy. He’s also served in various roles at the Brookings Institution, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the …
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God Made the Country, and Man Made the Town
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We sit down to talk about the recent history and far future of urban planning and design in China and worldwide with Sebastian Ibold, Project Director for the project Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport, GIZ. Sebastian has a rich past life as a consultant on urban planning issues and consulting in Asia, and his current work relates to r…
As the way China eats transforms, food activism and education are rising to address these changes. This week’s episode of Environment China collaborates with Erwin Li of Chewing the Fat, a podcast from Yale’s sustainable food program, to interview Zhou Wanqing about her research and grassroots organizing in China. Starting with an overview of the c…
With the U.S. announcing its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and China now embracing the concept of global climate governance, it’s easy to forget that 20 years ago, discussion of climate change in China was almost nonexistent. One person particularly well-placed to reflect on China’s transformation into a purported environmental her…
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Live from the Bookworm! The biggest environmental stories of 2018
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Environment China is back from hibernation with a series of new interviews! First up, today’s episode was recorded live at the Beijing Bookworm International Literary Festival. It was an honor to be invited back for the second year in a row to host a panel about the biggest stories coming out of China’s energy and environmental field over the past …
马天杰，中外对话北京运营副主编。加入中外对话之前，他担任绿色和平中国大陆项目总监。他于2009年取得美利坚大学国际环境政策硕士学位。他的英文博客Panda Paw, Dragon Claw (中文名：萌猛哒) 致力于从主流媒体以外的视角去记录和分析中国海外投资的足迹。 如果您有兴趣关注中外对话，请登录中外对话官网 https://www.chinadialogue.net/ 如果您有兴趣阅读Panda Paw, Dragon Claw 博客, 请点击 https://pandapawdragonclaw.blog/ Ma Tianjie is Beijing Managing Editor of chinadialogue. Before joining chinadialogue, he …
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LIVE Episode! "Podcasting in the 'Jing"
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This week, we have a special episode that was recorded LIVE in Beijing at an event on July 5th. Environment China hosted an evening panel discussion on the growing trend of podcasting and podcasters in Beijing. We were joined by hosts and producers from four relatively new Beijing-produced podcasts, including: Zhang Ya Jun from the Wo Men podcast, …
“十三五”煤控目标如何实现，“一带一路”建设如何促进绿色发展，是目前中国能源环境问题的两个重要焦点。华北电力大学袁家海教授作为电力经济和电力低碳转型的专家，从电力发展的角度就以上问题开展了深度研究。在这期节目中，袁教授将通过实地调研案例，与我们分享他在 “十三五”电力行业控煤政策研究以及“一带一路”绿色电力合作研究中的发现。如果希望进一步阅读相关研究成果，可以在网络上搜索《持续推进电力改革 提高可再生能源消纳》，下载这份报告。 Our guest this episode is Professor Yuan Jiahai from North China Electric Power University, an expert in electric power development an…
In today’s episode, we check the millennial box and take a look at blockchain -- and its energy implications. Alarming headlines came out earlier this year charting the rising energy consumption of Bitcoin and tracing the majority of its mining operations back to China. We are joined by Sophie Lu, head of China Research at Bloomberg New Energy Fina…
在国际NGO“野生动植物保护国际”负责具体的研究项目几年之后，木兰科植物研究者赵兴峰和灵长类动物研究者宋晴川认为对动植物的保护比起研究更加紧迫。随着中国生态文明建设的不断深入，兴峰和晴川与几个志同道合的朋友共同创立了社会企业“大戟自然”，希望利用自己的科研背景、国际NGO的工作经验以及商业化的模式，为中国大大小小的自然保护地提供管理运营的解决方案。如果希望进一步了解大戟自然，可以关注“大戟自然”的微信公众号。 Our guests for this episode are Song Qingchuan and Zhao Xingfeng, who are both researcher-turned-social entrepreneurs in ecological protection.…
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Turning Smog into Diamonds: Environmental Art in China
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What if we could turn smog into diamonds? This seemingly far-fetched idea is actually not so far from reality: a Dutch designer recently installed a tower in one of Beijing's most well-known art districts which does exactly that. While the installation is more art than long-term pollution solution, what if the growing movement of pollution-focused …
在良好的环境中工作、生活，是我们每个人都应当享有的权利。当环境污染侵害到了我们正常工作和生活的权益，我们可以通过法律途径要求污染者停止污染，向他们获取赔偿，维护自己的权益。然而，不具备环境法律权益知识的污染受害弱势群体，是否会被剥夺通过法律维护自身权益的权利？今天做客环境中国播客的嘉宾，中国政法大学王灿发教授，几十年来除了在环境法领域不断深耕，也致力于用自己的知识服务于社会大众，提高公众的环境维权意识，维护污染受害者的环境权益。他于1998年创立了全国第一家免费向污染受害者提供法律帮助的民间环保组织，并于1999年开通了污染受害者法律帮助热线，目前已经帮助700多起污染案件受害者向法院提起诉讼。希望了解更多污染受害者法律帮助中心，可以微信搜索“环境法律帮助”，关注他们的公众号。 We all…
Meet Joe and Carrie, the couple spreading the zero waste gospel in China. The dynamic duo opened the first zero waste store, “The Bulk House”, in China this year, selling products to help others live the zero waste lifestyle they adhere to. In today’s episode, they walk us through a day in the life of a zero waster - guiding us through everything f…
过去几年来越来越多的人讨论或参与生态旅行，但什么才是真正的负责任旅行呢？罗鹏是倡导负责任旅行企业生地行的创始人。过去五年来，她坚持自然教育，认为保护自然在于行动和育人。她为在城市生活的小朋友提供亲近自然、深入动植物保护地的机会，同时还为偏远保护区的少数民族文化保护与传承、农村经济发展等提供了良性循环、多方受益的解决方案。如果想了解更多有关生地行的故事，可以关注微信公众号ecoaction。 Our guest for this episode is LUO Peng, founder of EcoAction, a responsible travel advocate. Peng has shared with us many of her stories of bring young C…
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Legal Weapons in China’s War on Pollution
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In 2016, eight companies that had dumped untreated waste in the Tengger Desert were sued by NGOs. China’s Supreme People’s Court ruled that a lower court in Ningxia was liable to accept the case, and the decision eventually resulted in an environmental restoration bill worth about 91 million USD. Cases like this illustrate how courts are becoming a…
水质问题尤其是农村地区的水质问题一直都是大家关注的焦点，然而这些问题到底是什么，是什么引起的，带来了什么影响，如何去解决是千村千面，各不相同的。任晓媛和她创立的MyH2O水信息平台希望倡导公民科学意识，通过在地大学生、环保社团、返乡青年和当地居民等进行实地调研，了解问题，搭建水质信息平台，为农村对接饮水安全资源，至今已集结各地团队走入近千村庄收集水安全信息。如果希望进一步了解晓媛的水信息平台，可以关注微信公众号MyH2O。 Our guest for this episode is Xiaoyuan “Charlene” Ren, founder of MyH2O - Water Information Network, a platform that collects informatio…
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Conserving Water Along China's Old Silk Road
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Over 600 million Chinese people live in water-stressed regions. And perhaps nowhere are China's water challenges more acute than in the dusty farm-town regions of Xinjiang, along China's old Silk Road. This episode follows a 2000-year journey to hear the water conservation story of one town, Turpan, from an ancient underground canal system ("karez"…
Solar panels and wind turbines are probably the first things that come to mind when you think of solutions to climate change. A less prominent but equally critical solution is adopting a plant-based diet. Studies show that the meat industry contributes 15% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Our guest today, Peggy Liu, is the founder of the Joint U…
在中国，野生动物保护和生物多样性保护越来越引起人们的重视。然而在开展动物保护的同时，我们更需要做的是保护动物的栖息地，只有保护动物赖以生存的生态环境系统不被破坏，野生动物才能得以持续繁衍和生存。这意味着野生动物保护和生物多样性保护的工作需要各个环节的参与，包括专家学者、当地政府、志愿者团体以及当地社区，甚至还有远在城市的我们。今天做客环境中国播客的嘉宾是中国科学院动物研究所的解焱副研究员。她是中国生物多样性保护领域的知名专家，于2013年提出保护地友好的概念，并创立保护地友好体系，致力于探索一种将自然保护地、当地社区、各类组织机构和公众紧密联系起来的自然保护和经济发展相结合的模式，希望能在全国推广对保护地友好的生活、生产方式，有效保护自然资源和生物多样性，并在保证生态效益的前提下，使得经济、…
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Treating Healthcare's Environmental Side Effects
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Doctors abide by a millennia-old Hippocratic oath to “do no harm.” This oath usually refers to patient care, but today’s guest thinks the motto should extend to the environmental standards of the healthcare industry as well. Zhao Ang is the co-founder of Rock Energy and Environment Institute (REEI), a Chinese think tank that researches environment …
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Cats Without Borders: Conserving Snow Leopards
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Have you ever crossed frozen rivers to climb 4,000-meter ridges in search of snow leopards? This is a normal day "in the office" for Dr Justine Shanti Alexander. As a Regional Ecologist for the Snow Leopard Trust, Justine supports snow leopard research and conservation efforts in China and Mongolia to further safeguard the species. The cats live in…
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Live! From the Bookworm! The Biggest Stories from 2017
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Since Environment China launched in early 2017, there has already been significant change in China’s energy, environment, and climate landscape. In this episode, recorded as a live panel as part of the Bookworm International Literary Festival, we focus on the idea of “transformation,” and have our three guests walk through the backstories behind th…
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Fashion Forward: Greening China's Apparel Manufacturing
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Many consumers don’t realize that apparel manufacturing can be hugely polluting — and especially so to the environment in China, where roughly half of the world’s textiles are produced. Luckily, there are many easy ways for factories to cut down on energy and resource use and adopt more environmentally-friendly production processes. Part of the cha…
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Playing Serious Games for Policy Change
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China is a country with over 600 million gamers. What if all of this game playing could lead to good? With its Serious Games Initiative, the DC-based Wilson Center is working to communicate science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming. Most recently, the Serious Games Initiative teamed up with another Wilson Cente…
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Air Quality Innovations: Finding Data in the Smog
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Beijing's smoggy air has sparked a wave of creativity, giving rise to a range of products that aim to protect the public and their health. One innovative start-up, Kaiterra (formerly known as Origins), creates portable, high-accuracy monitors that measure and map the world’s air. Kaiterra's "laser eggs" have shed light on pollution data that was pr…
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A Slice of Sustainability: China's first F&B B Corp
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Jade Gray set out with a mission to create the “Patagonia of Pizza.” Originally from New Zealand, today’s guest has pioneered sustainable entrepreneurship in Beijing over the past two decades. He is the co-founder of Gung Ho! Ventures, which includes the Gung Ho! Pizza restaurants in Beijing. To become the “Patagonia of Pizza,” Jade’s company has t…
环保和记者是天然的盟友。环境记者这个行当在中国存在的时间还不是特别久，近年来，在越来越多的记者的见证和记录下，环境问题的曝光率和关注度越来越高。今天的环境中国播客，让我们来听听环境记者的故事。在中国做环境记者是一种什么样的体验呢？石毅是澎湃新闻的一名记者。她从2014年开始关注环境议题，报道涉及生物多样性保护、气候变化、野生物犯罪调查等。她对新疆卡拉麦里违规调减保护区面积的报道推动了保护区的整改；过去2年，她关注中国人和中国企业在非洲投资所引起的环境问题，报道了中国人在纳米比亚涉及象牙贸易，在刚果金涉嫌非法伐木。 2016年，她获得中外对话年度最佳环境记者奖。 In recent years, more and more environmental issues were exposed t…
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Oh Dam! Pumping Sustainability into Chinese Hydropower Investments
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China has a lot of dams – about 87,000 of them — and has almost one half of the world’s large dams, including the largest, the Three Gorges Dam. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that China’s hydro companies were among the first wave of Chinese companies to zou chu qu -- to "go out” from China in the early 2000s. But while hydroelectric plants represen…
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Every Bite Counts！资深食品安全工作者如何看待中国农业与食物的未来
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近些年来食品安全问题常常见诸报端。人们在思考其背后的原因的同时，也在试图寻找解决方案。今天参与我们对话的嘉宾是绿色和平东亚办公室食品与农业项目组的王婧。过去几年来，王婧和她同事们活跃在环保与生态农业圈，从事食品安全问题研究，倡导现代生态农业在中国的发展。本期节目中，她从政府、企业、农业生产者和普通消费者的不同角度分析了如何推动食品安全体系的建立，同时结合自身的经历介绍了生态农业在中国的发展现状和面临的问题。王婧亦是一名资深生态美食达人，是“吃货拯救世界”微信公众号的主要撰稿人，通过微信平台定期向大家推荐生态食材，推广生态农业和环境保护的理念。搜索chihuozhengjiushijie即可关注。 We are delighted to have Wang Jing from Greenpea…
During the recent international climate talks in Bonn, Environment China partnered with chinadialogue to produce an episode on China’s Belt and Road in the context of the climate conference. China’s Belt and Road Initiative, an overseas investment and development framework that has grown to include 68 countries, has taken centre stage in the discus…
网购和外卖极大地便利了我们的生活，但快递包装所消耗的资源和带来的垃圾却是一场生态浩劫。本期环境中国的嘉宾余元过着一种没有网购和外卖的“原始”生活，今天她来给大家讲讲她“不剁手”的极简生活方式。 余元 (Carrie) 是一位在北京创业的武汉女孩。她酷爱户外活动，崇尚极简主义。在践行极简生活方式的旅程中，她认识到了零浪费（zero waste)的生活方式，并创办了自己的社会企业The Bulk House/好思。在北京，余元主办了大大小小的工作坊和分享活动来倡导零浪费的生活方式，如果您对她的活动感兴趣，请关注“ TheBulkHouse好思出品”公众号。 The booming e-commerce is great news for China, but less so when it co…
