China’s airlines will not submit their carbon emissions data or pay any fines even if the EU chooses to punish them for not complying with its carbon taxation scheme, China’s air transport trade body said Sunday. “We will not participate in the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), submit emission monitoring data to EU member states, nor enter into talks with the EU for possible preferential terms,” Chai Haibo, deputy secretary-general [...]

A senior official from the Civil Aviation Administration of China said on Friday that the country disapproved and “will not accept any unilateral and compulsory market measures”, after the European Union threatened Chinese carriers with fines for non-compliance with its Emissions Trading System, or ETS. Speaking at the 2013 China Civil Aviation Development Forum in Beijing, Yan Mingchi, deputy director-general of the policy, law and regulation department under the CAAC, [...]

Himin Solar, one of China’s biggest solar water heater companies, said it will try to go public as soon as 2014, after a planned IPO failed in 2012 due to corruption allegations, in east China’s Shandong province, National Business Daily reported on Thursday. Himin Solar’s chairman Huang Ming said the company will apply for an IPO as early as 2014. He also said the company will start to develop new [...]

Bondholders agree to give maker of solar panels time to negotiate with creditors over restructuring debt Suntech Power Holdings Co., one of the world’s biggest makers of solar panels, said bondholders agreed to delay repayment of a US$ 540 million debt by another month and a half to June 28. David King, CEO of the New York-listed Suntech, said in a statement that the agreement with bondholders would help Suntech [...]

China has almost completed its investigations into solar-grade polysilicon from the United States, the European Union and South Korea, but the timing of announcing the preliminary rulings depends on the EU’s decision on whether to impose punitive duties on Chinese-made solar panels, experts said. “The investigations have been near their conclusion for quite some time,” said a source with the Ministry of Commerce. On July 20, the ministry launched anti-dumping [...]

Regional collaboration, green supply chain, stricter laws, market mechanism key to beating pollution China has done well in terms of regional cooperation on the economic front, but it is time for tighter laws and more regional efforts to fight air pollution through market mechanisms such as the carbon trading system, said Fred Krupp, president of the US-based Environmental Defense Fund. There have been calls for the government to revise its [...]

New data reveal that the temperature has risen 10 to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (6 to 8 C) in the last 20,000 years in central China, with the increase two to four times greater than what many scientists previously thought. “Before our study we did not have data that could tell us whether those changes were small or large,” said Robert Eagle, lead author of the research published in the early [...]

The Chinese government’s determination to fight air pollution and the nation’s developing solar energy market have attracted more international players to compete for a slice of the cake. “I just feel it is the right timing,” said Bruce Yung, managing director and vice-president of business development of First Solar, China. The US-based world leading solar module manufacturer and PV solution provider said it is “on track for final approval” in [...]

China’s LED industry is facing a drastic shake-up caused by failing firms and price drops, said a report released on Thursday. The average price of Chinese LED chips declined 32 percent year on year in 2012, according to a report issued by the Gaogong LED Industry Research Center. The government has encouraged the use of LED lighting in order to reduce emissions, triggering intense competition among small LED manufacturers. From [...]

China’s solar panel exporters are fearing tougher times as the European Union moves closer to imposing punitive duties on Chinese exports. “The punitive duties are surely unavoidable and the key is the rate of the duties,” said Zhang Bin, a senior sales executive of King-PV Technology Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Qunsheng Group in Zhejiang province. “If the duties are between 18 percent and 20 percent, the impact won’t be [...]