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  • Dec. 8, 2022

    Chinese industry body launches consultation on new grievance mechanism for communities impacted by mining projects

    The Responsible Cobalt Initiative has developed a complaint and consultation mechanism to ensure better handling of disputes on environmental, social and governance issues related to mining projects and mineral supply chains

    Jade mines in Hpakant
  • Beibei Yin / Dec. 2, 2020

    China’s major revamp of banking laws falls short of its green ambition, but it can still change that

    Two of the most important laws that govern the Chinese banking sector are due to be revised. China faces a real opportunity to ensure its banks are not putting money where it can harm people, the planet, or exacerbate the climate crisis

    Chinese flag outside government building
  • Beibei Yin / Aug. 6, 2020

    How to tackle the illegal timber trade? New rules on implementing China’s Forest Law could hold the key

    One thing is clear: Chinese firms have not been paying sufficient attention to whether the imported timber they buy and process is actually legal.

    Drone footage shows rainforests in the Pomio District of East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea slated to be cleared for oil palm.
  • Jo Blackman / Jan. 27, 2020

    New Chinese rules on illegal timber could help safeguard the world’s climate critical forests

    Whilst many countries around the world have adopted legislation to tackle the trade in illegal timber, China has been a notable absence

    rubber barons logs
  • Lela Stanley / July 31, 2019

    China’s role in global forest governance and the revision of its Forest Law

    We hope that China will use the revision of its Forest Law to introduce mandatory measures to prohibit the import of illegal timber to make real contributions to its commitments to tackling climate changes and protect biodiversity.

    Chinese flag outside government building
  • Mike Davis / March 29, 2019

    မြန်မာအဲရစ်ပရင့်စ် (Erik Prince)– (သို့မဟုတ်) တရုတ် ရပ်ဝန်းတခု ပတ်လမ်းစီမံကိန်း ရည်မှန်းချက်အောင်မြင်စွာဖော်ဆောင်နိုင်ရေး

    (နယ်စပ်ဝန်ဆောင်မှုအဖွဲ့ (FSG)က မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် လုပ်ငန်းတစ်ခုထူထောင် နေသည် ဟူသော သတင်းများပြီးခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်က ထွက်ပေါ်လာပါသည်။)

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  • Beibei Yin / Feb. 18, 2019

    A glimmer of hope in protecting our climate-critical forests

    Somewhere along the way, we’ve forgotten the importance of protecting our forests to help slow climate damage.

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  • Lizzie Parsons / Jan. 29, 2019

    Looking ahead to the new year of the pig – our China programme priorities

    From natural resource supply chains to tropical timber imports and climate change, we outline our China programme priorities for the year of the pig

    Chinese New Year lanterns. Credit: ToA55/iStock
  • Lizzie Parsons / Sept. 7, 2018

    On way to improving resource management

    The just concluded summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation drew global attention, and there is widespread agreement that successful South-South cooperation mechanisms can promote mutual development, and enable the participating countries to better respond to global challenges. But that success is not coming easily.

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  • Paul Donowitz / July 16, 2018

    တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမြောက်ပိုင်းတည်ငြိမ်ရေး ဆောင်ကျဉ်းပေးနိုင်သူ ဖြစ်နိုင်မလား

    မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၊နေပြည်တော်တွင် နိုင်ငံတော်အဆင့် ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲများကို အပြီးသတ်နေချိန်တွင် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသည် ကန့်လန့်ကာနောက်ကွယ် အရေးပါသော အခန်းကဏ္ဍမှ ပါဝင်လျက်ရှိသည်။ ကမ္ဘာ့အင်အားကြီးနိုင်ငံကြီး၏ ဖိအားကြောင့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော် (KIA) အပါအဝင် မြောက်ပိုင်းမဟာမိတ်အဖွဲ့များ၏ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များသည် ဆွေးနွေးပွဲသို့ တက်ရောက်လာခဲ့သည်။

    Machines are used to excavate jade in Hpakant on an enormous scale
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