Rich nations should pay for pollution from exports: China

September 24th, 2009 Planned emission cuts still means far hotter EarthWASHINGTON — A United Nations update says Earth's temperature is likely to jump nearly 6 more degrees by 2100 even if every country cuts greenhouse gas emissions as planned. Scientists looked at emission plans from 192 nations and calculated what would happen to global warming.

September 16th, 2009 EPA limits pollution from medical incineratorsWASHINGTON — About 50 medical waste incinerators nationwide will have to reduce their air pollution under new regulations announced Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA said that the new rules, which require better monitoring and tighten emissions limits, will reduce toxic pollution from the burning of medical waste by 390,000 pounds annually and likely result in no new incinerators being built.

August 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - New research shows that air pollution in eastern China has reduced the amount of light rainfall over the past 50 years and decreased by 23 percent the number of days of light rain in the eastern half of the country. Atmospheric scientist Yun Qian at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory led the research.

July 17th, 2009 UN: pollution accord enters into force in OctoberGENEVA — The United Nations says an international accord requiring governments to publicly identify sites of environmental pollution will come into force on Oct. 8. The U.N. Economic Commission for Europe, or UNECE, says the Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers covers 86 potentially hazardous substances.

June 11th, 2009 Chinese exports plunge 26.4 percent in MayBEIJING — China's exports plunged in May for a seventh month as the global downturn battered trade, while imports also dropped sharply, the government reported Thursday. May exports fell 26.4 percent from a year earlier, the customs agency reported.

June 2nd, 2009 US trade rep says China to de-emphasize exportsWASHINGTON — The trade representative for the United States says that, because of the recession, China has determined it should become less dependent on exports and stimulate demand in its domestic market. Trade representative Ron Kirk says the Obama administration sees in China's point of view what he calls "a great opportunity for American farmers, ranchers, producers and workers." President Barack Obama's top trade adviser, Kirk spoke Tuesday to the U.S.-China Business Council.

April 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's exports to the US have fallen by 11.5 percent in the five-month period since last October, said the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), adding that this was a 'matter of deep concern'. 'The sharp decline in our exports to the US that accounts for 13 percent of our global exports is a matter of deep concern,' FICCI president Harshpati Singhania said in a statement Thursday.

April 17th, 2009 BEIJING - A Festival of India will be held in China and a reciprocal Festival of China in India in 2010 with the aim 'to promote mutual awareness and understanding of the rich cultural heritage of each country'. The memorandum of understanding for holding the two cultural events was signed here Thursday by Indian Ambassador Nirupama Rao and China's Vice Minister Zhao Shao Hua.

March 25th, 2009 TOKYO - Japan's exports dropped by 49.4 percent in February, the biggest plunge on record, as global demand for cars and electronics declined, the Ministry of Finance said Wednesday. Exports dropped to 3.5 trillion yen ($35.7 billion) year-on-year in February, the fifth consecutive monthly drop and the biggest since the beginning of records in 1980.

February 28th, 2009 KOLKATA - At a time when the world is reeling under the economic meltdown, exporters of engineering goods in the country are looking to Africa and Southeast Asia for salvation. 'Though they predominantly buy engineering goods from China, last year they faced some difficulties and now they want India to be developed as a second supplier,' R.P.

February 27th, 2009 KOLKATA - Recession is making rich countries more negligent towards controlling carbon emissions, environmentalist Sunita Narain said Thursday, adding it was time to 'reinvent opportunities' to control pollution. 'As it is, between 1990-2006, carbon emissions of rich countries have increased by 14.5 percent; it has increased by 20 percent in America alone.

February 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Chennai leather cluster in Tamil Nadu is among the 10 dynamic industrial clusters in the world, says a UN agency's report on industrial development report. 'These (case studies) are included in the report to demonstrate practical models for bottom billion nations to learn and profit from,' said the report of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) released Monday.

February 6th, 2009 KOCHI - Seafood exports are likely to fall about 20 percent both in quantity and value terms this fiscal due to the global economic slowdown, an industry body has said. 'The global meltdown has taken a toll on the industry, and seafood prices are going down in international markets,' Anwar Hashim, president of the Seafood Exporters Association of India, told IANS here.

February 1st, 2009 LONDON - The British government was braced Monday for more protests against China's human rights record even as Prime Minister Gordon Brown told visiting Chinese premier Wen Jiabao he wanted to double British exports to China. After talks with Wen at Downing Street, Brown announced a new two-year programme to help British companies market their products in China, saying he wanted to increase British exports to China from $5 billion in 2008 to $10 billion in 2010.

December 25th, 2008 BEIJING - The China University Alumni Association has released a list of universities where the richest Chinese graduated. Peking University topped the list with 35 billionaire alumni.