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The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program (simplified Chinese: 三北防护林; traditional Chinese: 三北防護林; pinyin: Sānběi Fánghùlín), also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, [1] and provide ...
The climate policy of China has a massive impact on global climate change, as China is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world. Chinese plans to abide by carbon emission reduction goals involves peaking greenhouse gas emissions before 2030, and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060. [1]
By 2018, 21.7% of China's territory was covered by forests, a figure the government wants to increase to 26% by 2035. The total area of China is 9,596,961 square kilometres (see China), so 412,669 square kilometres more needs to be planted. [75] According to the government's plan, by 2050, 30% of China's territory should be covered by forests. [76]
The scheme is part of China’s plans to use market mechanisms to help bring emissions to a peak before 2030 and to net zero by 2060.Phase one covers 2,225 power plants.They are responsible for ...
Initiated in China in 1999 in Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan, the compensatory afforestation scheme has so far resulted to the appreciation of forest coverage by 23%. Between 2012 and 2016, around 33.8 million hectares of artificial forest was planted with most of it being a part of compensatory afforestation endeavours in the country. [7]
Between 1999 and 2002, China converted 7.7 million hectares of farmland into forest. [21] China became one of the 17 founding members of the Like-Minded Megadiverse Countries in 2002. [22]: 83 The group was established to promote consultation and cooperation on the preservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. [22]: 83
According to South China Morning Post reforestation in China increased the world tree canopy cover by 25%. The trees were first planted for stopping soil erosion and flooding but now can act as a tool to fight climate change. [75] In the years 2012-2022 China restored more than 70 million hectares (700,000 km 2) of forests.
[6]: 55 To facilitate carbon trading and to more broadly help assess emissions targets and meet the transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement, the Plan improved the system for greenhouse gas emissions monitoring. [6]: 55 This was the first time that carbon emissions trading had featured in one of China's Five-Year Plans. [8]: 80