The Xinjiang government has banned glacier tourism under the far north-western province’s five year plan to try and save its fast disappearing ice caps. Home to China’s largest glaciers, the far north-western Xinjiang province has seen its glaciers recede sharply in recent years. ….
China’s just-released 13th Five Year Plan — which sets out the country’s economic and social blueprint — promises to be the greenest yet. It articulates the leadership’s aim to shift the vast economy away from fossil fuels and heavy industry and towards renewable energy and green growth. ….
By Claude Arpie, published in The Daily Pioneer on 25 February 2016
Tourism in China not only brings revenue to the regional Government, but also helps to ‘stabilise the plateau’. Unfortunately in India, the Nehruvian approach is still prevalent. ….
The Economist
GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place. ….
China is more closely involved in cross-border cooperation on hydropower and water management after the six countries that share the Mekong River signed a landmark agreement late last year. ….
Jane Qiu
In the northern reaches of the Tibetan Plateau, dozens of yaks graze on grasslands that look like a threadbare carpet. The pasture has been munched down to bare soil in places, and deep cracks run across the snow-dusted landscape. ….
TOKYO – Sikyong Dr Lobsang Sangay delivered a speech on ‘Melting Tibet, Threat to Asia’ to a large audience of Japanese, Mongolian and some from East Turkistan, at the Gokokuji temple in Tokyo on 9 January, 2016. ….
China’s huge foreign investment plans will need green banking to be environmentally sustainable, writes Liu Qin ….
As the world struggles to thrash out a climate deal, a new report shows melting permafrost could release a fresh wave of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere ….
Large areas of the Tibetan plateau – the source of Asia’s major rivers – are suffering from desertification and the situation will only get worse according to China’s top scientific body ….
