China Cities News & Analysis | China Dialogue https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/ China and the Environment Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:45:55 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://cdn.chinadialogue.net/content/uploads/2020/06/19102132/Colour.svg China Cities News & Analysis | China Dialogue https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/ 32 32 Road salt: Protecting China’s drivers, but at what cost? https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/road-salt-protecting-chinas-drivers-but-at-what-cost/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:44:06 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=119320 Salting roads can make winter driving safer, but its corrosive impacts on roads and human health need addressing

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]]> Underground express: The quiet rise of subway couriers in China https://chinadialogue.net/en/transport/underground-express-the-quiet-rise-of-subway-couriers-in-china/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 16:28:34 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=116736 Parcels are being moved around by subway to reduce emissions, but for inter-city freight, low-carbon approaches are still lacking

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]]> Four years of waste sorting leaves China’s incinerators short of fuel https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/four-years-of-waste-sorting-leaves-chinas-incinerators-short-of-fuel/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 14:00:42 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=109400 Despite a reduction in the requisite material, China continues to build new waste-to-power incinerators. Its policy for utilising waste needs standardising and refining, writes Li Jiacheng

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]]> Green buildings: Ending the demolish and rebuild cycle in China https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/green-buildings-ending-the-demolish-and-rebuild-cycle-in-china/ Wed, 31 May 2023 13:29:11 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=103670 What is being done to lower the emissions footprint of new buildings, and retrofit old ones with insulation and low carbon-heating?

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]]> Indonesia backs hydro to power new capital city https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/indonesia-backs-hydro-to-power-new-capital-city-nusantara/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:05:17 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=101281 A dam with Chinese backing is slowly being built, but may impact Indigenous villages and the environment

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]]> Is mandatory garbage sorting working in China? https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/is-mandatory-garbage-sorting-working-in-china/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:05:27 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=92987 Three years after Shanghai imposed mandatory sorting of household waste, we review the successes and failures of the policy and ask what’s yet to come

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]]> Is the ‘solidarity economy’ an alternative for China’s urban food supply? https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/is-the-solidarity-economy-an-alternative-for-chinas-urban-food-supply/ Tue, 31 May 2022 16:50:56 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=81535 Could farming conducted for social rather than financial profit help meet the challenges the pandemic has posed to food supply?

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]]> Olympic gains: Study highlights China’s progress on air pollution since 2008 https://chinadialogue.net/en/pollution/chinas-air-pollution-progress-since-2008/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:44:38 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=75143 US academics find China is responsible for over 70% of global reductions in airborne pollutants over the last seven years, reductions that may increase the country’s life expectancy

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]]> Rooftop solar to roll out on China’s public buildings https://chinadialogue.net/en/energy/rooftop-solar-to-roll-out-on-chinas-public-buildings/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:22:29 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=73170 The latest county-level trials could boost rooftop solar power generation over the next five years but new business models are needed to make them successful

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]]> The apps helping Indonesia’s waste collectors https://chinadialogue.net/en/cities/the-apps-helping-indonesias-waste-collectors/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:48:07 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=73110 Apps are recasting informal waste collectors as environmental protectors, while improving their working conditions and earning potential

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