中国香港《南华早报》报道，中国预计明年初实行一项二氧化硫排放交易方案。根据这项方案，发电站每年必须上缴70亿元人民币（合1亿8千万美元）以获取二氧化硫排放权。
China is planning to launch an emissions trading scheme as early as next year that would require power plants to pay 7 billion yuan a year (US$880 million) for the right to emit sulphur dioxide, the South China Morning Post reported.
2002年，土耳其修建伊利索大坝的计划因受到强烈反对而搁置，现在土耳其政府又重新启动了修建计划。在本文中，玛吉•罗尼解释了她基于文化和环境方面的因素而依然反对建设这座大坝的原因，而尼尔•阿彻森对这场激烈的争论做了总结。
Turkey has revived plans for the vast Ilisu Dam. Maggie Ronayne explains why she’s still fighting construction on cultural and environmental grounds, while Neal Ascherson outlines the bitter dispute.
本月在北京进行的风力电厂建设的招标中只有国有企业参与。这表明了该国发展清洁能源的投资计划不健全。
Only state-owned Chinese companies took part in a tender process in Beijing to build wind farms, highlighting shortfalls in the country's controversial investment plan to promote clean energy sources.
保护环境还是确保经济发展？对于中国南方的广东省来说，答案已经很明确。广东省政府要求新上马的项目都必须达到该省环境局制定的严格的环评标准。
Protecting the environment or economic growth? That is no longer a question for south China's Guangdong Province, where new project proposals must face up to tougher assessment criteria set by the local environmental regulator.
据卫报星期二报道, 目前正涌现一批新的小型绿色环保公司。它们拥有激进但已被证实可行的理念，那就是革新工程设计，创造从智能冰箱到巨大海上风力发电机组等的环保产品。
A new generation of small green companies is emerging with radical but proven ideas to revolutionise engineering and create anything from intelligent fridges to colossal wind turbines moored at sea, reports the Guardian on Tuesday.
欧盟周二警告汽车厂商如果该产业不履行其自愿设定的减排目标，欧盟将加强立法削减汽车二氧化碳排放。
The European Union warned carmakers on Tuesday that it will introduce legislation to enforce cuts in carbon dioxide emissions, if the industry does not work harder to meet voluntary pollution-cutting targets.
中国日报周三报道，中国政府有关方面说，中国因能源需求持续高涨和环境执法不严在前半年未完成控制水污染和空气污染这两项主要指 标。
China failed to rein in two major pollution indicators in the first half of the year as soaring energy use and lax environmental controls thwarted policies to combat water and air pollution, said the China Daily on Wednesday, citing government sources.
世界银行已经促成了一项最大的温室气体交易。那就是欧洲和亚洲的公司将会付给中国的化学公司10.2亿美元来促使它们减少温室气体的排放。
The World Bank has put together the largest greenhouse gas deal ever, whereby a consortium of partners that includes European and Asian companies will pay two Chinese chemical companies US$1.02 billion to reduce output of gases believed to cause global warming.
