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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 ...
China committed to plant and conserve 70 billion trees by the year 2030 as part of the Trillion Tree Campaign. [76] A special organization: "1t.org China Action" will assist to China with achieving its reforestation and forest conservation goals. [77] Conserving and planting mangroves is an important part of the environmental policy of China ...
Environmental policy in China is set by the National People's Congress and managed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China.Under the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China, the Department of Policies, Laws, and Regulations is in charge of establishing and strengthening basic laws and policies such as environmental laws ...
The Tenth five-year plan is a plan for China's national economic and social development for the 2001-2005 period. With economic development as its main goal, the plan establishes the strategic adjustment of the economic structure as its main line, while focusing on ecological construction, environmental protection, and sustainable economic and social development.
The Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests is an endangered ecoregion in southwestern China. These forests once covered the western parts of the Yungui Plateau but have been significantly reduced and replaced with agricultural land uses.
[8] [9] [10]. The Australia Institute highlights 23 instances where carbon offset schemes were found to have significant shortcomings. [11] These include claims of overestimated carbon sequestration, double-counting of credits, and the failure of projects to provide additional environmental benefits beyond what would have occurred naturally.
What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic
The 11th Five-Year Plan of China, officially the 11th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China, was a set of economic goals designed to strengthen the Chinese economy between 2006 and 2010.