On October 20 this year, the Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued the National Carbon Peak Pilot Construction Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Pilot Plan"), proposing to select 100 typical representative cities and parks across the country to carry out carbon peak pilot construction.On December 6, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the First

The United States has approved the first Generation IV nuclear power reactor.On December 12, local time, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it had instructed staff to report to the Kailos Power Company (Kairos Power) issued a Construction Permit (CPA) allowing the company to build the Hermes non-powered demonstration reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.Hermes demonstration reactorThe application for construction was submitted by Kairos Power in September 2021 and is a f

Droughts, wildfires, floods and landslides pose a growing threat to biodiversity and human survival in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to a recent UNESCO report.On 12 December, UNESCO released its first quantitative report on the impact of climate anomalies on biosphere reserves and global geoparks in Latin America and the Caribbean, covering 15 protected areas covering a geographical area of more than 1 million square kilometres inhabited by 110 million people in Argentina, Brazil, C

On October 26, the 2023 Jinshan Summit on Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality was held in Zhenjiang. The theme of this summit is "Green Transformation, Low-carbon Development - Strengthening the Industrial Chain and Gathering Supply Chains" to jointly promote green and low-carbon high-quality development. During the conference, focusing on the promotion of "dual carbon", eight major actions for carbon peak and carbon neutrality were launched, and an action plan for low-carbon life was released, fo

From December 11th to 12th, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing, which comprehensively summarized the economic work in 2023, deeply analyzed the current economic situation, and systematically deployed the economic work in 2024."This Central Economic Work Conference is the first meeting of the new State Council, and it is the first work. Personally, I think that the economic work in 2024 will pay more attention to science and technology leadership, industrial innovation and e

On December 8, Li Haidong, Deputy Director of the Ecological Civilization Construction Research Center of the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, and his delegation visited the Low Carbon Development Center and held a discussion and exchange on the China-Norway cooperation project "China's Biodiversity Conservation under Climate Change". Relevant technical personnel of the low-carbon development center participated in the discussion.At the symp

From December 11th to 12th, the Central Economic Work Conference was held in Beijing, which comprehensively summarized the economic work in 2023, deeply analyzed the current economic situation, and systematically deployed the economic work in 2024."This Central Economic Work Conference is the first meeting of the new State Council, and it is the first work. Personally, I think that the economic work in 2024 will pay more attention to science and technology leadership, industrial innovation and e

Recently, for the first time, Standard Chartered Group assisted a Chinese company in completing a spot transaction of carbon credits, which was completed by Muyuan Food Co., Ltd. ("Muyuan Food") as the seller in the voluntary carbon market.The voluntary carbon credits involved in the transaction are in line with the "gold standard" generally recognized in the international market, and the transaction is executed by Standard Chartered's team in the United Kingdom.                                 

On December 14, Baosteel Co., Ltd. and Chery Holding officially signed the "Memorandum of Cooperation on Building a Green and Low-Carbon Steel Supply Chain" (hereinafter referred to as the "Memorandum"), focusing on future green and low-carbon cooperation, jointly building a green and low-carbon automotive supply chain, and promoting the early realization of sustainable development goals between the two parties. The two sides had a fruitful dialogue on how to carry out the pilot application of B

This year, the new installed capacity of photovoltaics has once again exceeded expectations.On December 15, the 2023 Photovoltaic Industry Annual Conference was held in Suqian, Jiangsu. Wang Bohua, honorary chairman of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (hereinafter referred to as the Photovoltaic Association), said at the meeting that the growth momentum of the photovoltaic industry is strong this year.1-10In January, China's new PV installed capacity was 142.56 GW, a year-on-year incr