chemicals | China Dialogue https://chinadialogue.net/en/tag/chemicals/ 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 chemicals | China Dialogue https://chinadialogue.net/en/tag/chemicals/ 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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]]> What can be learnt from the response to the Ohio chemical spill? https://chinadialogue.net/en/pollution/what-china-can-learn-from-ohio-chemical-spill/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:09:01 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=100452 The Environmental Protection Agency held the railroad company accountable, promptly disclosed information and directed the clean-up operation

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]]> Palm oil derivatives: are sustainability promises lost in the supply chain? https://chinadialogue.net/en/business/palm-oil-derivatives-are-sustainability-promises-lost-in-the-supply-chain/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:55:46 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=86610 Complexities in tracing and transparency mean sustainability leaders may be falling short of their own commitments on palm derivatives and oleochemicals

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]]> China’s plan to clean up ‘new pollutants’ https://chinadialogue.net/en/pollution/chinas-plan-to-clean-up-new-pollutants/ Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:19:37 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=85491 Hopes are high that an action plan will help control chemicals with ongoing harmful effects, though experts note a lack of supporting legislation

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]]> Argentina’s land laws stifle sustainable agriculture https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/argentinas-land-laws-stifle-sustainable-agriculture/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:37:27 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=69947 The laws have meant increasingly concentrated land ownership and leasing to profit-oriented companies who care little for long-term sustainability

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]]> How can China cut emissions from its farms? https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/how-can-china-cut-emissions-from-its-farms/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:03:49 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=69742 Chinese agriculture has seen some progress towards decarbonising but there is much more to be done, write Cheng Kun and Pan Genxing

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]]> Eleven Chinese chemical plants may have stopped controlling ‘super-pollutant’ https://chinadialogue.net/en/pollution/chinese-chemical-plants-super-pollutant-nitrous-oxide/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:14:49 +0000 https://chinadialogue.net/?p=66630 Controls on nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, worked perfectly at Chinese plants, until foreign subsidy dried up

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]]> How is China doing with the Minamata Convention on Mercury? https://chinadialogue.net/en/pollution/how-is-china-doing-with-the-minamata-convention-on-mercury/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:58:00 +0000 http://chinadialogue.net/?p=64585 This is a crucial year for hitting targets on the Minamata Convention, and China needs to work faster, reports Wang Chen

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]]> Fall armyworm tests China’s determination to cut back on pesticides https://chinadialogue.net/en/food/fall-armyworm-tests-chinas-determination-to-cut-back-on-pesticides/ Thu, 28 May 2020 15:03:08 +0000 http://chinadialogue.net/?p=63872 Progress on a 2015 undertaking to reduce pesticide use should continue despite the fall armyworm threat

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]]> New oil pipeline in northern Thailand may worsen flooding https://chinadialogue.net/en/energy/11845-new-oil-pipeline-in-northern-thailand-may-worsen-flooding/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 10:30:00 +0000 ‘We don’t know who to talk to’ say residents concerned about floods and air pollution from the China-financed pipeline

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