China’s Environmental Solutions: Policies, Technologies, and Persp

Concomitant  with a rapid increase in population and an unprecedented growth of the  economy, China came to endure an alarming level of environmental damgae.  In response, environmental legislation was tightened and massive  environmental projects were initiated. As a result, China's environment  and ecosystems are begining to recover. At the same time, the country is  continuing on its growth path, making an above-average contriubtion to  the global emission of greenhouse gases, not least becuase of the heavy  use of coal as a source of energy. The world's second-largest economy  aims to halt this trend by rapidly building sustainable and clean energy  resources and has committed itself to being carbon neutral by 2060. in  this process, "beautiful China" intends to become the global role model  of a "digital civilization" based on science and technology. This book  describes the stakeholders, programs, and achievements along this path  and provides an outlook on pertinent developments in the years to come.