China Environmental Law

Best headline in the China environmental humor category goes to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for Singapore-Beijing highway prompts environmental concerns.
As on St Patrick’s day where one is more attuned to the color green, April 1st has the radar scanning for the potential prank.  Thus, headlines in my “news alert” dump that wouldn’t have invited a [...]

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Parameter

2005 Baseline

% year-on-year change

2010 Goal

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

Energy consumption (per RMB10,000 of GDP)
1.22 tce*
-1.79           (1.204 tce)**
-3.66        (1.160 tce)
o
o
o
.98 tce

Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)(millions of tons)
14.14
+1.80%(14.39)
-3.14(13.94)
0
0
0
12.70

Sulfur Dioxide(millions of tons)
25.49
+1.20%(25.80)
-4.66(24.60)
0
0
0
22.95

* This number is hard to pin down, see the discussion below. China expresses its energy consumption numbers in terms of “ton of coal equivalents” (tce).                ** I’ve calculated the hard numbers [...]

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