From a standpoint of renewable energy and the environment, the composition of Beijing can look rather stark. But right up until the opening races, the Chinese government have continued to promote and develop their national aspiration of a greener China - Here’s how.

From the early 1960’s countries struggling with the challenge of maintaining their levels of food production against population growth embraced emergent technologies, technologies manufactured, for the most part, in developed countries from 1943 onwards.
The result? Swelling yields of basic food stuffs. Wheat yields, for example, grew from below 500kg per hectare to just under 3,000kg [...]

The plastic bag ban is moving slowly but surely in the UK where citizens are replacing the plastic with renewable canvas. But countries such as China are still struggling to follow suit and enforce the ban on plastic bags. The 1.3 billion people who reside in Beijing still stride up and down markets gathering bag [...]

It was inevitable that heavily industrialized China would eventually need to come up with an environmental policy for large companies which use enormous amounts of energy every year. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is leading the pack with a program that hopes to bring energy efficient technology to mass energy using companies in the industrialized [...]

China’s plastic bag usage is phenomenal, even for a country with the population of 1.3 billion. Three billion plastic bags are used every day in China, amounting to 1.6 million tonnes each year. The Chinese government wants to reduce this amount to 1.1 million tonnes per year, with limits on packaging coming into force on [...]

Greenpeace and over 100 other environmentalist groups including Friends of the Earth International claim that plans to bury industrial greenhouse gases will create “false hope,” and is not the solution to tackling world climate change.
Governments want to use new technology to capture heat-trapping carbon dioxide from exhausts of factories and power plants, and entrap them [...]

On the 26th May 2008, Group of Eight environment ministers agreed that a 50 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions was needed by 2050, but failed to commit themselves to any major near-term targets.
Scientists believe that a significant decrease in emissions by 2020 is vital in avoiding the worst effects of Global Warming, and [...]

An Asian mosquito species may arrive in the UK, bringing with it a significant risk of potentially fatal disease.
The Asian tiger mosquito has already been detected in Italy as well as other parts of Europe, including Germany and Holland. This particular species of mosquito has been known to spread chikungunya fever throughout parts of south-east [...]

This summers much talked about Olympic games in Beijing claims to be “basically” carbon neutral due to energy saving techniques like the use of solar power and afforestation programs, senior officials said this month.
The Technology Minister Wan Gang said the event would produce 1.18 million tones of CO2 mostly due to athletes and spectators who [...]

UN’s Environmental Programme (UNep) said this week that the world’s rich nations are dumping electronic waste in undeveloped countries, creating a “growing mountain of e-waste”. (Quoted in BBC News Online)
An estimated 50 million tonnes of waste from discarded electronic devices is generated annually. In the US alone, 40 million computers become obsolete each year.
Computers, cell [...]