Beijing is concernded about the poor image and potential disruption that traffic-choked streets will create for visitors to next year's Olympic Games. To that end, it hopes to reduce traffic congestion by 20% to 30% by keeping 1m cars off the roads for the duration of the games...   more »

China has delayed indefinitely its national "action plan" on climate change, which was due to be released earlier this week. The delay comes at a time of growing international concern at China's apparent desire to back-pedal on earlier commitments to adopt a "green" agenda for economic growth...   more »

Another Chinese renewable energy project has benefited from Kyoto's Clean Development Mechanism, despite China's refusal to join other Kyoto signatories in accepting binding emission reductions...    more »

China is poised to overtake the US as the world's biggest emitter of CO2 as early as next year. That is worrying news, particularly as China wants to rejects binding caps on carbon emissions until the country's modernisation is complete...   more »

Greenpeace, the environmental activist group, has given China's Lenovo top marks for its practices for handling electronic waste -- a growing problem in the high-tech industry. Lenovo's achievement will come as a surprise to western critics who believe that Chinese firms prefer to put profits before environmental concerns...   more »

EngagingChina has often wondered why more western businesses aren't rushing to help with one of China's most pressing problems, namely, creating a more environmental sustainable economy. One that has seen the light is Siemens, which expects growing interest in cleaner forms of transport and energy technologies will double its China sales...   more »