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Tag: Carbon trading

Posted inThe Environment

China carbon trading scheme starting out toothless

by AT Contributor February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

China has launched the world’s biggest carbon trading system to help lower carbon emissions, but critics and analysts have raised doubts about whether it will have a signficant impact. China is the world’s biggest emitter of the greenhouse gases that drive climate change, and the scheme is part of its efforts to decarbonize its economy […]

Pollution in Shenyang, Liaoning province. Photo: Reuters/Stringer
Posted inOpinion

Trading smoke: air pollution as commodity

by Igor Kuchma September 3, 2020September 3, 2020
A coal fired electric generation plant in China. Photo: iStock/Getty Images
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, European Union, Indonesia, Oceania, World

Rich countries must not be allowed to buy the right to keep polluting

by Meena Raman September 7, 2018
Pollution from Chinese plants. Photo: iStock
Posted inBeijing, China, Shanghai, Tianjin

China may exceed greenhouse gas target by 2020

by Asia Times staff November 1, 2017February 18, 2020

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