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Shenzhen announces start date for emissions trading

Thu, 04/04/2013 - 20:26
Jonathan Moch

Shenzhen, a city of 11 million people just north of Hong Kong, has announced that it will begin emission trading on June 17. Shenzhen is one of the seven Chinese cities and provinces that have been developing pilot programs for carbon emissions trading.

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China’s New Energy Consumption Control Target

Fri, 03/15/2013 - 15:13
Ranping Song

China’s State Council in late January approved an “energy consumption control target” to keep the country’s total energy consumption below the equivalent of 4 billion tonnes of coal per year by 2015.

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