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Plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues, as rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world’s ability to deal with them. Plastic pollution is most visible in developing Asian and African nations, where garbage collection systems are often inefficient or nonexistent. But the developed world, especially in countries with low recycling rates, also has trouble properly collecting discarded plastics. Plastic trash has become so ubiquitous it has prompted efforts to write a global treaty negotiated by the United Nations.
Flourishing sales of new electric vehicles have led to a considerable surge in demand for the vital, upstream raw material, lithium (Li). As an essential energy metal and raw material for the production of batteries, lithium has become indispensable to the electric vehicle industry. It has been identified as a strategic, emerging industrial mineral in China. Based on a literature review and qualitative analysis of the imbalance between the supply and demand of lithium raw materials in China, this paper analyzes the current challenges of China’s lithium supply chain, especially mining, pricing and recycling, that are obstructing the realization of China’s carbon neutrality. On this basis, relevant policy suggestions are proposed from three perspectives: strengthening lithium resource development and reserve capacity, promoting international cooperation for lithium supply, and properly regulating the circular economy of domestic lithium resources.
As climate change has an increasingly negative impact on the living environment, it is urgent to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. As the main sources of carbon emissions, buildings, energy, transportation and industry have become the main focus of China’s emission reduction efforts. For example, many previous studies have investigated the low-carbon roadmap or carbon-neutral pathway of the building sector (Li et al., 2022; Sun et al., 2022; Xiang et al., 2022). This paper, however, focus on another sector with vast potential for carbon emission reduction: transportation.
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global electric vehicle sales reached 6.6 million in 2021, more than double the 2020 level of three million. By the close of 2020, more than 20 countries/regions had either announced plans to ban the sale of conventional cars or mandated that all newly sold vehicles must be zero-emissions. Many governments have further stimulated consumer demand for electric vehicles through incentives such as subsidies. Moreover, many large automobile manufacturers worldwide have announced plans to expand the scale of electric vehicle production. Therefore, because lithium-ion technology is the most widely used path for powering electric vehicles, the most critical resource, lithium (Li), has been listed as a strategic resource in many countries, such as the United States and China.
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Coal industry in China and abroad expect stronger trade in the fuel, a reliable source of power for reviving economy, as China aims to ramp up energy supplies and stabilize prices.
With the lifting of pandemic restrictions, border reopening and business resumption, China is gearing up to recover rapidly from pandemic, which will offer more opportunities to fuel producers such as Indonesia, Mongolia and Russia, all leading coal exporters.
Meanwhile, Australian coal miners may see a pick-up in exports to China, according to the China Import-coal Summit in Beijing on Thursday.
Wang Deyang, deputy director of the Trade Development Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the government will give full play to the comprehensive comparative advantages of coal to stabilize energy prices.
Coal accounted for 56 percent of China's total primary energy consumption. Imported coal accounts for less than 10 percent of the country's total consumption, but it's an increasingly important supplement.
Andre Gorobez, head of the Economic Division of the Trade Representative Office of Russia, said on Thursday that coal trade is a pillar of strong bilateral trade relations.
Official figures haven't yet been released, but there's good reason to believe that China's imports of Russian coal grew in 2022, he said. Now, with the lifting of epidemic restrictions, and the opening of new cross-border bridges, transport capacity will constantly grow, Gorobez said.
China's imported coal market is at a turning point. With the economic recovery in 2023, China's coal consumption will rise.
China's imported coal mainly comes from Indonesia, accounting for 58.3 percent of total imports, followed by Russia at 23.3 percent and Mongolia at 10 percent, data from industry information provider Lange showed.
