China Environmental Laws
This Thread is about the Environmental Laws in China.
In China is there a right to life in place for animals, plants, etc.?
Does China have strict laws in place to protect the environment?
Survival and restoration of China's native forests imperiled by proliferating tree plantations. China's reforestation efforts have led to an increase in tree cover by 32 percent but the increase mostly comes from people turning former croplands into tree plantations with only one type of tree, which is of little value to wildlife. Likewise, native forests actually decreased by 6 percent because people continued to clear native forests to make way for tree plantations. Source 8j.
China not 'walking the walk' on methane emissions. In China, regulations to reduce methane emissions from coal mining took full effect in 2010 and required methane to be captured or to be converted into carbon dioxide. A team of researchers set out to use atmospheric modeling and satellite data to evaluate whether these new rules actually curbed Chinese methane emissions. They found that the regulations on coal mining have not slowed the nation's growing methane emissions over the past five years as intended. Source 7f.