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AIIB’s new no-coal pledge puts spotlight on China’s overseas energy investment

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China must boost green finance to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060

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Cambodian construction boom turns karst mountains to cement

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Bartosz Majcher, a tropical ecologist at the University of Hong Kong, points to a mangrove sapling growing in Three Fathoms Cove. With its mangroves, mudflats and sandy shores, this is one of Hong Kong’s most ecologically diverse locations. Hong Kong has lost almost all of its mangroves due to coastal development. (Image: Katherine Cheng / China Dialogue)
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Coal highway through Sumatran forest threatens wildlife and people

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