China’s transition. The world’s business.
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Biodiversity, pollution, water, materials and waste, and how environmental pressures affect operations, assets and investment.
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The Kunming Dialogue exposed the gap between national biodiversity plans and on-the-ground delivery. For companies, the next question is whether nature risk can be measured, financed and governed with the discipline increasingly applied to carbon.
A Ministry of Ecology and Environment field visit linked straw use, biomass energy, soil protection, waste recycling and river-basin governance into one regional execution test.
Science and Technology Daily's Aug. 25 report on the new ecological protection plan matters because it treats restoration as a coordination problem. Six government authorities, including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Ministry of…
The University of Hong Kong's Aug. 26 announcement about a new One Earth study puts the battery circularity debate in the right place: producer responsibility. The study, by researchers from HKU, Shandong University, the University of Maryland,…
Reuters' Aug. 26 report that China was preparing for more heavy rain from back-to-back storms is a concise but important physical-climate signal. The available evidence does not provide enough detail to state rainfall totals, damage figures or…
China's Ecological and Environmental Code matters because it changes how environmental policy is organized, not because it introduces a single flashy rule. According to the Aug 17 PRNewswire release, the code came into force on Aug 15 and brings…
Electric vehicles remove tailpipe emissions, but they do not eliminate the environmental footprint of road transport. That point became sharper this week after EurekAlert reported a new national-scale source-to-receptor assessment of tire-derived…
Typhoon Bavi pushed climate adaptation back into China's ESG agenda this week. Xinhua reported that the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters raised its emergency response for flood control and typhoon prevention in Zhejiang and…
The Beautiful China plan released on Jul 3 is easy to dismiss as a slogan, but it should be read as a governance document. The State Council said the 2026-2030 plan sets overall requirements, targets, key tasks and major projects for advancing…
China's EV boom is creating a second industrial story: the battery afterlife. Caixin reported on Jun 30 that recycled critical metals supplied enough material in 2025 to meet more than a tenth of China's power-battery production needs. The report…
EV battery recycling is no longer just a waste issue. A Jun 17 World Economic Forum article framed recycling as a strategic industrial activity, noting that governments are reinforcing lifecycle-focused regulation and industrial policy. Its…
Focus event: on June 1, Sina Finance reported that China’s new-energy passenger-car exports in the first quarter reached 908,000 units, equivalent to 47.6% of domestic retail volume.
Focus event: Xinhua reported on May 28 that MIIT convened the second meeting of the national NEV power-battery recycling task force and called for law-based regulation of retired-battery recycling.
Focus event: Securities Daily reported rising battery-scrap prices, fast listed-company entry and persistent disorder in power-battery recycling after a new management rule took effect.
Focus event: Economic Daily reported 2025 recycling-industry figures from the China National Resources Recycling Association.