CHINA
Despite its environmental impact, China has begun building a 4,200-kilometre gas pipeline costing us $18 billion. Its aim: boosting economic growth in the impoverished western provinces and delivering fuel to the booming eastern city of Shanghai.
The pipeline's trial construction has already kicked off in fragile wetlands and on the Yangtze, Yellow and Huai rivers. Although western analysists question the economic viability of the project, the Chinese government is encouraging the project to reduce dependence on imported oil.
Related Content
- Regional economic outlook for Asia and Pacific: steady growth amid diverging prospects
- A global incentive scheme to reduce carbon emissions
- Clean energy transitions programme: annual report 2023
- Fiscal implications of global decarbonization
- Integrating co-benefits into Nationally Determined Contributions, climate policies and air pollution policies in Asia
- Used heavy- duty vehicles and the environment: a global overview of used heavy-duty vehicles- flow, scale and regulation