s Jilin province.ReutersChina, the world's biggest carbon emitter, plans to establish a firm cap on its CO2 emissions from 2016, a top government official has said.The target will be included in the next five-year plan, which comes into force in 2016, He Jiankun, chairman of China's Advisory Committee on Climate Change, told a conference in Beijing.He said China's greenhouse gas emissions will peak in 2030, at around 11 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent. Emissions from the world's second largest economy hover at between seven to nine-and-a-half billion tonnes.However, the adviser said that will depend on China accomplishing a real reduction in coal consumption from sometime around 2020 or 2025, and on the nation meeting its target of generating 150-200 gigawatts of power through nuclear energy by 2030.The share of non-fossil fuels in China's energy mix will hit 20% to 25% in 2030, He added.Meanwhile, Sun Cuihua, a top climate change official at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's main economic-planning agency, said Beijing is planning to roll out a national emissions trading scheme in 2016 or 2017, but that it will only be fully operational in 2020."The government will use two ways to control CO2 emissions in the next five-year plan, by intensity and an absolute cap," He said, reported Reuters.Vehicular PollutionThe official Xinhua news agency, quoting the State Council, the country's cabinet, reported in May that China will eliminate six million vehicles that do not meet carbon emission standards.About 20% of the vehicles to be eliminated are from the country's northern regions, including the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin, and the Hebei province, which have suffered severe smog attacks in recent years.Environment LawIn April, the government passed amendments to China's 25-year-old environmental protection law, which will target polluters with tougher penalties.The highly-anticipated amendments, which go into effect on 1 January 2015, followed public dismay over the pervasive pollution that has stifled China.RelatedChina Taking Millions of Vehicles Off Road to Tackle Air PollutionChina Revises 25-Year Environment Law as Pollution Chokes NationChinese New Year 2014: China Urges Firework Ban as it Grapples Smog CrisisChinese Cities to Curb New Vehicle Sales to Combat Pollution <div
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@6 China Outspending US in Pursuit of Shale Gas RevolutionBy M RochanMay 29,Nike Air Max 2013 Womens, 2014 14:59 BSTA file photograph of Sinopec's natural gas appraisal well in Sichuan province, China.ReutersChina is preparing to establish its own shale gas revolution as it attempts to overtake the US by spending four times as much as the States in developing fields.The world's most populous nation and its second-largest economy is also the largest holder of natural gas confined in shale rock formations.State-owned Sinopec's estimate that it will spend an average of $10m (??6m, ?7.3m) per well at its Fuling site is almost four times the amount spent on a well in parts of the US, where costs on the lower-side hover at $2.6m a well, according to a report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF).China is expected to pump billions of dollars into shale gas exploration and extraction in order to pull alongside the US, the shale leader that enjoys an almost ten-year head start in developing the energy resource, the document added.However,Nike Air Max 2015 Black Blue, Sinopec's drilling costs are expected to drop as it increases production to meet Beijing's target of 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas a year by 2015.Pollution ControlBeijing's shale gas push is part of the drive to reduce the nation's dependence on coal-fired power plants, a move that will improve air quality in the world's biggest carbon emitter.The Communist regime proposes to increase natural gas consumption to 9% of its total energy demand by 2017,Nike Air Max 2013 Womens Pink Silver Black, up from 5.2% in 2013, and restrain coal consumption to below 65%, according to a 16 May statement from China's top economic planning agency.China holds 1,115 trillion cubic feet (31.2 trillion cubic meters) of technically extractable shale gas reserves, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated in 2013. By comparison, America has about 665 trillion cubic feet (18.6 trillion cubic meters).However, in contrast to China's target of 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas, the US produced about 300 billion in 2012, according to EIA data.RelatedChina: Drilling Rigs Maker Honghua Hopes to Ride Shale Gas Boom <div
'<D}5u7 2 China Photo Story: The Last Survivors of Crippling Foot Binding TraditionBy Mary-Ann RussonJune 9, 2014 19:19 BSTBritish photographer Jo Farrell, 48, is racing against time to capture images and interviews with the last living Chinese women to have survived the ancient abusive practice of foot binding, which is responsible for life-long disabilities.Farrell has set up a campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds so that she can complete her project,Nike Air Max 2014 UK, which is to create a visual and written history of these women. The campaign has currently raised $9,544 (??5,684).Foot binding, also known as "Lotus Feet", was a common Chinese custom that lasted for over 1,000 y
