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In today’s digital business era, it can be easy to slip into believing that customers around the world all want pretty much the same things. But that’s definitely not the case, as the recent departure of Uber from China illustrates. Uber’s decision to sell its China operations
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China might have overtaken the US’ lead as the world’s top carbon dioxide emitter fair and square, but it’s achieved its position as a leader in green technologies through a host of unfair and illegal trade practices, according to a complaint filed today by the United Steelworkers (USW)
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Remember all those grand new eco-cities that were supposed to spring up out of bare earth in China? Yeah … we forgot about them too. Fortunately, Christina Larson at Yale Environment 360 hasn’t, and she provides a fascinating followup of China’s best-laid green-city plans in “China’s Grand Plans
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We’ve all heard plenty about how people in developing countries are eager to catch up to the developed-nation lifestyle: fast food, cars, mobile phones, big-screen TVs, etc. But a new study by the consulting giant Accenture finds an intriguing difference between the populations: citizens of developing economies are apparently
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Plans have been unveiled for a giant 1GW solar power station in Qaidam Basin desert region of north western China. China Technology Development Group and Qinghai New Energy Group have signed an agreement with the local government of the Qinghai Haixi region to build the solar power station, which will
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Climate Change Capital, the UK-based alternative investment manager, is going shopping for clean tech bargains in China. The company is planning to invest $732m in environmental and clean tech projects in China over the next three years. According to this report by Reuters, the company is taking advantage of the
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CEOs of three of China’s largest companies have made a commitment to fight global warming and play a key role in the world’s transition to a low carbon economy. The announcement comes as research has revealed that China has overtaken the US as the world’s leading emitter
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Like feet on Canadian coastlines or men accidentally shooting themselves in the head with nail guns, some things turn up far more often than you think. Like World Bank grants. Not one month after the World Bank said it will be distributing $5.5 billion for clean tech projects in
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If carbon emissions rankings are any guide to Olympic medal success, then Greenbang would like to tap her nose knowingly and suggest you could do worse than put a few bob on China. (and if you’ll follow such shoddy betting logic, you deserve to lose your money. Go bet
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Who are the most patient people in the world? Primary school teachers? Buddhish monks? Buddhist monks who teach primary schoolchildren and look after injured puppies on the weekend? No, it’s actually Chinese factory owners. If you’re a little skeptical, Greenbang would like to point you towards an article
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A little heads-up for any readers out there that fancy getting expanding their knowledge on China and climate change: there’s an event out there just for you. It’s called, funnily enough, China and Climate Change, and it’s on in central London on Tuesday 8th July. The event
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When oil folk go shopping, what do they buy? If Dallas is anything to go by, kidney-shaped pools, shoulder pads, ten gallon hats and even more gallons of gin for the good old gals to drown their sorrows in. If this week’s news is anything to go by, they