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Li Jing

Li Jing has been Climate Home News' China correspondent and is a freelance writer. Her coverage on China's environmental crisis has won multiple prizes, including Asian Environmental Journalist of the Year 2013. Previously she worked for South China Morning Post and China Daily. Jing lives in Beijing.
    Dec 11, 2019
    News

    The legacy of Xie Zhenhua, minister who transformed China’s climate policy

    The retired minister oversaw a shift from defending China’s ‘right to emit’ to become a key creator of the Paris Agreement
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    Sep 25, 2018
    News

    What does the Chinese public think about climate change?

    Ninety-four percent of the public think China should be in the Paris climate deal, although many don’t know exactly what that means
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    Apr 25, 2018
    News

    China reshuffle brings ‘challenges’ for national carbon market: senior official

    Many more staff need training on the emissions trading system as climate policy moves to a new, enlarged environment ministry, says director Li Gao
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    Apr 9, 2018
    News

    China’s new environment ministry unveiled, with huge staff boost

    New offices required to house mega-department, but will climate change survive as a priority after being shifted out of the powerful development commission?
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    Feb 12, 2018
    Comment

    As China counts its emissions, has growth shaken free of carbon?

    As the economy surged in 2017, experts are divided over whether emissions stayed flat. It could mean pollution has peaked more than a decade earlier than expected
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    Jan 31, 2018
    Politics

    China to monitor human health impacts of pollution for first time

    Environment ministry paper sets out system for evaluating and responding to national health crisis, a move once seen as inconsistent with growth
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    Jan 10, 2018
    News

    Macron urges Chinese people to “make our planet great again” – in Mandarin

    French president did not announce any new climate initiatives with Xi Jinping on China visit, but his efforts to learn the language went viral
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    Dec 14, 2017
    Carbon markets

    China to launch nationwide carbon market next week: officials

    The emissions trading scheme will initially cover only the power sector, not heavy industry as planned, but will nonetheless become the biggest in the world
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    Dec 7, 2017
    Energy

    China reverses coal ban after gas shortage leaves residents freezing

    After an anti-air pollution drive left many without heat, China’s government has relaxed a ban on coal across 28 northern cities
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    Dec 4, 2017
    News

    No heating at -6C: Poor bear brunt of Beijing’s air cleanup

    Urban demands for cleaner air have left residents of surrounding towns without heating and cooking as coal systems are ripped out and gas supply falters
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    Nov 15, 2017
    Politics

    China, India policies improve global warming outlook: analysis

    Climate Action Tracker expects 3.4C warming by the end of the century, based on the sum of national policies, compared to a 3.6C prediction last year
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    Nov 15, 2017
    Politics

    Developing countries win concessions on early climate action at UN talks

    A row over the promises rich countries made on climate action before 2020 has been resolved at negotiations in Bonn, with several wins for developing countries
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    Nov 13, 2017
    Politics

    Global carbon emissions rise in 2017, driven by China

    The projected 2% increase in carbon dioxide emissions comes from growth in China’s smokestack industries and jeopardises the Paris climate agreement goals, say experts
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    Nov 10, 2017
    Politics

    Dispute over pre-2020 climate action ‘risks repeat of Copenhagen’

    Brazil’s lead negotiator warned a failure to meet negotiating deadlines and resolve a rich-poor procedural spat could set back international cooperation for years
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    Nov 8, 2017
    News

    Xi expected to skirt climate issue with Trump

    US-Sino relations viewed as too important to be upset over climate change, say observers close to the Chinese government
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    Nov 8, 2017
    News

    UN climate talks: India puts heat on rich countries, China takes softer stance

    While India has loudly criticised a decision on the commitments rich countries made up to 2020, their partner in the ‘like-minded’ bloc was not like-minded
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    Nov 3, 2017
    News

    Tensions emerge over timetable for raising climate ambition

    China, India and other emerging economies are opposed to any mandatory raising of national climate pledges before 2020
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    Nov 1, 2017
    News

    Is China the leader UN climate talks need?

    Xi Jinping’s trillion-dollar overseas investment strategy has not caught up with his green rhetoric, environmentalists warn as countries head to Bonn climate summit
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