Environmental
Policy
Summary
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Chinese Climate Change.
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Impacts and Costs of Pollution in China.
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Environmental Policy in China.
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China as the dominant player in green technologies. I) Chinese Climate Change
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Origin
1972: First Occidental opening with USA ( Mao Zedong invited
Richard Nixon to visit China)
1976: Deng Xiaoping lead a Liberalisation Policy
Economic Change
Industrialisation
Foreign Factories relocation
B) Negatives Impacts
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Pollution Increasing
Atmospheric Pollution
Coal power station
Heating
First Importer of Oil since 2011
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Water Pollution
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Wastes elimination by Factories
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Greenhouse gas Production
The most important producer of carbon dioxide
3) Bulky Wastes
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Importation of wastes from Occidental Factories ( 70%)
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Production of 1 million tonnes of wastes by year
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Electronic wastes ( Jonathan Watts- When a billion Chinese jump: How China will save Mankind-or destroy it)
4) Natural resources Over-exploitation
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Water:
Unchecked farmlands irrigation
Hydroelectric project within Himalaya
Natural Resources: Coal
5) Desertification
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Deforestation
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Lakes and Tides Drainage
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Waste of arable lands
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1/3 of the country is desert
6) Ecosystem Degradation
Conclusion:
All the precedents points contribute towards the Ecosystem degradation: Ø
Endangered species (White Dolphin, Panda,…)
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Ice melt of the Himalaya
II) Impacts and costs of pollution in China
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Impacts:
Ecosystem : the butterfly effect of desertification.
Pollution decrease the life of China’s population.
Tourism is decreasing because of the pollution.
Costs:
Difficult to reverse the trend.
China spend $275 billion to fight pollution.
To fight smog, Hong Kong commits $1,3 billion.
III) Environmental policy