China begun its bid to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060 in earnest with the launch of the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) at the beginning of February.

It follows a process called "cap-and-trade," and is seen as an alternative to a carbon tax. The aim is that market forces will help reduce CO2 e...

Ma Jun who leads the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs, said last week's World Economic Forum (WEF) showed growing international consensus on the need for action.

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Climate change was one of the hot topics of this year's virtual World Economic Forum. Luckily, one of the best options for cutting carbon emissions is relatively easy – planting trees.

But there's concern among scientists that it's not being done right – to the extent it could actually harm the ...

France stops short of a full national lockdown but bans all non-essential travel from outside the EU, while Portugal closes its land border with Spain to stop the spread of the new variants of the virus.

In Hungary, protesters gathered at the Heroes square in Budapest to demonstrate against the ...

At this time of year, European thoughts turn to the heartwarming idea of a long summer break abroad enjoying sun and sea. But with the COVID-19 pandemic still circulating and infections rising in several parts of the world, there's a question mark over whether summer holidays will go ahead as nor...

As the dangers of vaccine nationalism become clear, the world's richest countries are faced with a dilemma. Do they prioritize their country's needs over the rest of the world – and in doing so, risk damaging not only a global health recovery but an economic one?

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As the tide washes out from the banks of the River Thames in London, it reveals secrets the capital has kept underwater for centuries.

Once the river drains, it exposes a stony foreshore and soon solitary individuals are scouring the surface for hidden treasures – some with a small garden trowe...

Day five at the World Economic Forum:

- “EU needs to connect to global growth” said European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis.

- Japan Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is determined for the Olympics to go ahead.

- Fu Ying, vice-chair of the foreign affairs committee of the National Pe...

📈Is this really ‘the French Revolution of finance’?

The #GameStop trading war is blowing up, pitting Wall Street’s pros against casual Reddit investors 💻💵

So what exactly is ‘shorting’ and how is an army of finance amateurs causing hedge funds to crumble? 🧐

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One of the UK's biggest issues with trying to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic are asymptomatic carriers of the virus and, more importantly, how to detect them.

These are people who have been infected with the virus but have no symptoms and often don't even know they have it. A study in the UK last...

Digitalization has come to the fore during the pandemic and the way it has accelerated under lockdown was the focus on day four of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.

Labeled the "fourth industrial revolution," the growth of technology has led to 50 percent of the world's population now bei...

Brussels is expected to launch a new set of rules governing the international export of coronavirus vaccines, as the fallout from an ugly row with AstraZeneca over a supply shortfall worsens.

While not a blanket ban, the new authorization tool will give member states and the European Commission...

Germany is expected to announce tighter border controls after leading virologists warned the measures would be necessary to control more contagious variants of COVID-19.

Leaders in Berlin have been considering the policy for weeks and previously put pressure on the European Union for tougher blo...

After all the dramatic negotiations, the UK/EU trade deal ended up being a fairly unremarkable document broadly in line with any other free trade agreement across the world.

But that, to businesses established in the last 40 years of a single market and used to functioning without UK-EU import c...

Amid the growing EU-AstraZeneca row over a delay of vaccine delivery, Hungary has turned its back on Brussels and is looking East for alternatives.

Having already purchased 2 million doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, expected to arrive by the end of February, Hungary is in talks to buy the Si...

Germany will become the first EU country to use antibody cocktails to fight COVID-19.

Two hundred thousand "monoclonal antibody therapies" developed by U.S. pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Regeneron are being delivered to hospitals and clinics across the country this week.

The drugs have ...

🇨🇳 China's ambassador to the EU, Zhang Ming, has echoed the calls for multilateralism made by China's President Xi Jinping and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel at the World Economic Forum.

Speaking to Friends of Europe, a Brussels-based think tank, Zhang reiterated China's hopes that the new B...

Around 50 million people around the world suffer from dementia: a syndrome in which there is a deterioration in memory, thinking and behavior, resulting in the inability to perform every day activities.

Not only does the disease have a profound impact on the families affected, but it is also co...

The EU investment deal with China will benefit more than just the two partners, explains Zhang Ming of Mission of China to the EU.

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European member states, many of which are battling a seemingly endless wave of new infections, are furious over the AstraZeneca vaccine delays.

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said two rounds of intense talks between the EU and the pharma giant resulted in "dissatisfaction with the lac...

🇨🇳 🇬🇧 The cost of shipping goods from China to Europe has increased by up to 600% in recent weeks because of a shortage of shipping containers. 🚢

🧸 One company said it might have to double the price of a $54 teddy bear to compensate.

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The French government is now recommending that people wear surgical masks in public because they offer better protection from COVID-19 transmission.

The ruling says that only three types of masks will be recommended for use in public settings: disposable surgical masks, the FFP2 coverings, and ...

🦠 From South Africa and Brazil to the UK, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are constantly being discovered, coinciding with an accelerating international vaccination program 💉

Although this is a normal development, these latest variants are causing alarm. They are fast-spreading, inflicting ...

"I was too excited to describe my feelings in words" Miners speak for the first time after rescue from underground ordeal.

More than two weeks have passed since two blasts rocked the Hushan gold mine in Qixia City of east China's Shandong Province. Twenty-two miners were trapped underground when...