Category: Environment

China unveiled its National Botanical Garden in Beijing on Monday as part of the country’s plan to preserve biodiversity. With a total planned area of nearly 600 hectares, the garden boasts more than 30,000 species of plants, accounting for 10 percent of the world’s total.

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In a speech delivered on Saturday at the Climate Ambition Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping made three proposals:

1. to close ranks and make new advances in climate governance that features cooperation and win-win;
2. to raise ambition and foster a new architecture of climate governance where every party does its part; and

3. to boost confidence and pursue a new approach to climate governance that highlights green recovery.

China will lower its carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by over 65 percent from the 2005 level, and increase the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 25 percent.
China will increase its forest stock volume by 6 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level, and bring its total installed capacity of wind and solar power to over 1.2 billion kilowatts

Chinese President Xi Jinping says China will aim to stop pumping additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2060.

Xi’s announcement during a speech Tuesday to the UN General Assembly is a significant step for the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and was immediately cheered by climate campaigners.

Calling for a green revolution, Xi said the coronavirus pandemic had shown the need to preserve the environment.

Humankind can no longer afford to ignore the repeated warnings of nature, he said.

Xi said his country would raise its emissions reduction targets with vigorous policies and measures. We aim to have CO2 emissions peak before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060.
中国将提高国家自主贡献力度，采取更加有力的政策和措施，二氧化碳排放力争于2030年前达到峰值，努力争取2060年前实现碳中和。