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Opinion: China To Continue Expanding Its Influence In The Oil And Gas Sector

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China also made large investments in Saudi Arabia’s oil refining industry as well. When it comes to Chinese energy industry, there are three major state owned companies. Lately though, China’s large investments are being made in the mid-stream sector of the oil and gas industry, the one sector China doesn’t have a national company for.

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AQLI: new data reveals little progress globally in reducing air pollution over the last two decades

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Produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), the AQLI is based on frontier research by EPIC’s director Michael Greenstone that quantified the causal relationship between human exposure to air pollution and reduced life expectancy.

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HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

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was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second. In India in 2015, however, the leading source contribution by far was residential biomass burning, followed by anthropogenic dust, powerplant coal, industrial coal and open burning. In China in 2013, the leading source contribution to deaths attributable to PM 2.5

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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South. The paper is published in Nature Communications. —Prof Guan.

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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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The percentage of the world’s population living in water-stressed regions—currently one out of every three—is expected to double to two of every three by 2025 as declining water supplies are further stressed by increased water demand for irrigation, hydration, and industrial cooling in warming regions. Sectoral Water Risks. Electric Power.

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Lancet Series: Improving road safety measures could save half a million lives every year worldwide

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—Series coordinator Professor Adnan Hyder from The George Washington University, USA. —co-author Dr Junaid Razzak from Weill Cornell Medical Centre, USA and Aga Khan University College of Medicine, Pakistan. —Dr Amy Peden from The University of New South Wales, Australia.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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Now in its twentieth year, the biennial report is produced by researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Substantial populations still suffer from poor air quality, most notably in India, China, and Pakistan.

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