Environment

How a Beijing Community Uses Technology to Sort its Waste

Beijing will soon enforce new waste-sorting rules, following on Shanghai's heels. CDB went to see how one of the city's communities uses technology to sort its waste.

2019-10-30

Nature-based solutions: 5 important publications by IUCN

As the leading organization of the research and promotion of NbS, IUCN has published many relevant reports and journals, providing researchers and policy makers their expert guidance and suggestions. In today’s article by IUCN China, they listed out 5 publications that you must not miss

2019-10-14

Report shows effectiveness of Shanghai’s waste-sorting after 100 days of implementation

A recent inspection reveals that the implementation of the new rules has exceeded expectations

2019-10-11

Can Shanghai become a model city for waste sorting?

Editor’s Note This is an abridged and adapted translation of a piece by Guo Peiyuan (郭沛源), the Chairman of SynTao Green Finance and co-founder and General Manager of SynTao, published on SynTao’s WeChat account on the 1st of July 2019.…

2019-07-08

Environmental organization proclaims the Chinese pangolin “functionally extinct”, provoking debate

The China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), one of China’s most important environmental organizations, has recently kicked up a storm by announcing the “functional extinction” of the Chinese pangolin. At the recent forum of the C-SDG Global Sustainable…

2019-06-18

World Bicycle Day celebrated across China

June 3 was designated as World Bicycle Day by the United Nations General Assembly in April 2018, with the aim of celebrating and promoting bicycle use around the world. This resolution was the result of a petition by Montgomery College…

2019-06-03

Points of No Return – an Interview with Jennifer Morgan, Greenpeace

In this wide-ranging interview with CDB, the International Executive Director of Greenpeace Jennifer Morgan discusses her organization's strategies in China and worldwide, the importance of fighting climate change and preserving biodiversity and the fallout from the Paris agreement.

2019-05-24

Special fund for forestry and grassland protection and poverty alleviation established

China’s first national ecological protection and poverty alleviation fund, the “Special fund for forestry and grassland ecological protection and poverty alleviation”, has been initiated by the State Forestry and Grassland Administration of China. The fund was announced on the 12th…

2019-03-14

Alashan SEE Foundation in international partnership to save the rhino

On the eve of the opening of the fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, China’s Alashan SEE Foundation teamed up with the Number Five Foundation from the Netherlands and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to organize the…

2019-03-13

China’s major express delivery companies publish “green paper” to reduce environmental impact

On the 6th of March, China’s major delivery service companies and the China Environmental Protection Foundation took the lead in launching the “multi-party co-governance and greener express delivery” (多方共治、快递更绿) initiative, calling on the whole of society to join in on…

2019-03-07

Litigation registered against Guangxi rescue center over the death of 34 pangolins

The first environmental public interest litigation on pangolins was approved on January 11, 2019. The plaintiff, the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), claims that due to dereliction of duty the seized pangolins received by the Guangxi Terrestrial…

2019-01-23

Final decision taken on the “Changzhou poisonous land” environmental litigation case

The Jiangsu High People’s Court made a final decision on the “Changzhou poisonous land case” on December 27th, waiving the “sky-high” legal expenses imposed on the two NGOs by the first ruling, and ordering the three companies to publicly apologise…

2019-01-03

The Friends of Spirit Community: reviving China’s disappearing villages

It is well-known that many villages and old buildings in China are disappearing due to the advance of urbanization. From 2000 until 2010, the number of so-called “natural villages” (villages that grew spontaneously and are not administrative divisions) in China’s…

2018-12-17

CDB Reports

How a Beijing Community Uses Technology to Sort its Waste

Nature-based solutions: 5 important publications by IUCN

Report shows effectiveness of Shanghai’s waste-sorting after 100 days of implementation

Can Shanghai become a model city for waste sorting?

World Bicycle Day celebrated across China

Points of No Return – an Interview with Jennifer Morgan, Greenpeace

Special fund for forestry and grassland protection and poverty alleviation established

Alashan SEE Foundation in international partnership to save the rhino

China’s major express delivery companies publish “green paper” to reduce environmental impact

Litigation registered against Guangxi rescue center over the death of 34 pangolins

Final decision taken on the “Changzhou poisonous land” environmental litigation case

The Friends of Spirit Community: reviving China’s disappearing villages

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