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The new edition of this award-winning volume reflects the latest events in the in global environmental politics and sustainable development, while providing balanced coverage of the key institutions, environmental issues, treaties, and policies. The book highlights global environmental institutions, major state and non-state actors, and includes a wide range of cases such as climate change, biodiversity, hazardous chemicals, ozone layer depletion, nuclear energy and resource consumption.
How China’s Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement
How China’s Domestic Energy and Environmental Challenges Shape Its Global Engagement
China’s breakneck economic growth over the past three decades has created extreme environmental challenges, including high levels of air pollution affecting human health, agriculture, ecology, and infrastructure. China relies on coal for more than two-thirds of its energy needs, and coal combustion causes most of this pollution, which includes sulfur dioxide and particulates. In addition, China’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions have led to the nation’s becoming the largest source of such emissions in the world and, therefore, a major contributor to global climate change. China’s economic development has come at the ...
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