climate action

Asia Pacific 32 years behind schedule in achieving sustainable development goals: UN

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Areas that have shown substantial progress are eliminating poverty, and bolstering sustainable industry, innovation and infrastructure. Even so, steps taken so far are insufficient to meet the 2030 targets for both goals, the report said. It attributed the sluggish performance to an unfavourable global environment. Numerous economies have yet to fully recover from the COVID-19 … Read more

Force of nature: China’s top climate envoy Xie Zhenhua steps down after more than 15 years in environment diplomacy

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A Tianjin native, Xie was trained as an engineering physicist at Tsinghua University in the 1970s and started his career in various government agencies responsible for environmental affairs. While he rose through the ranks, he earned a master’s degree in environmental law from Wuhan University in 1993. Xie was made the head of the State … Read more