China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
https://www.google.com/maps/place/China
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China - News from the Guardian
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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/china
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INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
China's INDC plan - http://www4.unfccc.int/submissions/INDC/Published%20Documents/China/1/China's%20INDC%20-%20on%2030%20June%202015.pdf
[English Translation] http://www.ndrc.gov.cn/xwzx/xwfb/201506/W020150630783447810119.doc
[Fact Sheet] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/chinas-contributions-paris-climate-agreement.pdf
Data Points: In its INDC China has committed to the following actions by 2030:
• Peaking of carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 and making best efforts to peak early;
• Lowering carbon dioxide intensity (carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP) by 60 to 65 percent from the 2005 level;
• Increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in primary energy consumption to around 20 percent; and
• Increasing the forest stock volume by around 4.5 billion cubic meters from the 2005 level.
Based on analysis by some of the world’s leading energy institutes, China’s INDC represents a significant undertaking beyond business-as-usual and will help slow the rise in global greenhouse gas emissions. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), International Energy Agency (IEA), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tsinghua University, peaking carbon dioxide emissions around 2030 would reduce China’s emissions by at least 1.7 Gt or 14 percent from the most optimistic business-as-usual (BAU) scenario
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Geo-political News
● China's World Trade Summit (New Silk Road / Belt and Road Initiative, a “project of the century”)
● Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
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China's Eurasia Strategy
● http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Eurasia
● http://strategicdemands.com/?s=eurasia
China-Pakistan 'Silk Road' extension
http://csis.org/publication/building-chinas-one-belt-one-road
Building China’s “One Belt, One Road”
Center for Strategic & International Studies / APR 3, 2015
On March 28, China’s top economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), released a new action plan outlining key details of Beijing’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative. Chinese president Xi Jinping has made the program a centerpiece of both his foreign policy and domestic economic strategy. Initially billed as a network of regional infrastructure projects, this latest release indicates that the scope of the “Belt and Road” initiative has continued to expand and will now include promotion of enhanced policy coordination across the Asian continent, financial integration, trade liberalization, and people-to-people connectivity. China’s efforts to implement this initiative will likely have an important effect on the region’s economic architecture—patterns of regional trade, investment, infrastructure development—and in turn have strategic implications for China, the United States, and other major powers.
http://www.mapsopensource.com/china?url=china
