All Blog Posts Tagged 'china' (4)

President Obama will attend COP15 in Copenhagen where he will promise the most ambitious targets America has ever proposed to reduce climate change causing greenhouse gases. The White House has announced 17 percent emissions reductions below 2005 levels by 2020, 30 percent by 2025, 42 percent five years later and 83 percent by 2050. The lack of progress at final negotiations in Barcelona, lowered expectations for COP15, however the White House's announcements have buoyed hopes for a deal in Co… Continue

With tens of millions of electric bicycles and scooters already on its streets, China is well on its way to wide acceptance of electric vehicles. The Chinese government must consider strategies for managing its burgeoning fossil fuel consumption. China is already the second largest importer of oil in the worl… Continue

Although there were some important promises made at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, climate change negotiations are progressing at a dangerously slow rate. To continue reading go to… Continue

2,000,000 defenceless cats and dogs are skinned alive every year in China. That's 5,479 every day, 228 every hour or nearly 4 every minute all dying in excruciating agony. Why - "Because" say the Chinese fur skinners "it's cheaper and easier to skin a live, warm animal thats convulsing in agony than a dead body. The whole skin comes off easily and in one piece" The skins are then sold for $1 each and are mislabelled as another animal (not cat, rabbit or dog etc) or even labelled as artificial fu… Continue