https://www.scmp.com/rss/329970/feed Jackson Ewing is senior fellow at the Duke University Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and an adjunct associate professor at the Duke Sanford School. He founded and led the Asia Society Policy Institute initiative "Roadmap to a Northeast Asian Carbon Market" from 2015-2018 and serves as ASPI senior adviser for sustainability. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Despite China’s disinterest in offering new commitments at US President Joe Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate, the country sits at a climate policy inflection point. Since September, when President Xi Jinping committed China to carbon neutrality by 2060, three fulcrums have emerged in its climate strategy. Chinese actions in these spaces, and the international forces that affect them, will determine whether and how the world’s largest emitter can decarbonise its economy. First, an internal... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3131167/success-chinas-climate-action-hinges-three-turning-points?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3131167/success-chinas-climate-action-hinges-three-turning-points?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:15:09 +0000 The East Asian powers are moving on climate change. In recent months, South Korea has launched a Green New Deal and committed to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Japan has also pledged net-zero emissions by 2050. In September, Chinese President Xi Jinping surprised the United Nations General Assembly by committing to achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. With these countries responsible for one-third of global emissions, East Asia’s growing ambition is the biggest international... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3111655/how-china-japan-and-south-korea-can-make-their-carbon-neutral-goals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3111655/how-china-japan-and-south-korea-can-make-their-carbon-neutral-goals?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Nov 2020 05:00:17 +0000 The worst of nature’s battlefields are visible in the destroyed South China Sea coral reefs. Over the past five years, China has added more than 1,300 hectares to islands, reefs and atolls primarily on the Spratly archipelago, in the waters between Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines – which, along with China, Taiwan, and Brunei, have competing claims to the territories. Vietnam has likewise engaged in artificial island construction, albeit on a much smaller scale, as each claimant seeks,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2179756/nations-fight-control-south-china-sea-coral-reefs-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/asia/article/2179756/nations-fight-control-south-china-sea-coral-reefs-are?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Dec 2018 01:00:30 +0000