https://www.scmp.com/rss/510961/feed Zhang Jingjing is an environmental lawyer, a lecturer in law at the University of Maryland School of Law, and founder of the Centre for Transnational Environmental Accountability. She has been dubbed “China’s Erin Brockovitch” for winning several milestone environmental litigation cases in the Chinese courts. She works on transnational environmental and climate lawsuits in China’s Belt and Road Initiative partner countries, testing legal avenues to hold Chinese overseas companies accountable... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com This week, China assumes the presidency of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, a treaty that has long served to coordinate global efforts to prevent biodiversity loss. Between now and next spring, Kunming hosts the convention’s Conference of Parties (COP15), where critical negotiations will determine whether the global community can arrest the biodiversity crisis that, unchecked, could leave half the world’s described species extinct by the end of the century. Not on the agenda but an... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3152092/cop15-china-achieve-its-ecological-goals-soes-must-improve-their?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3152092/cop15-china-achieve-its-ecological-goals-soes-must-improve-their?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Oct 2021 06:30:12 +0000