Rush hour traffic backs up along a highway in Beijing, China, on April 23, 2020
CHINA’S island province of Hainan will become the first to fully ban petrol and diesel cars.
Sale of such cars will be illegal by 2030 and tax breaks will encourage purchase of electric vehicles, which should already make up 45 per cent of cars on the island by then, provincial authorities announced in their Carbon Peak Implementation Plan.
China is already the world leader in electric vehicles, with an industry built up through heavy government subsidies since 2009 and automotive manufacturers required to meet escalating quotas of total output.
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
