Janvier 2019 REVUE DE PRESSE POLE DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE, ENERGIE, TRANSPORTS MONGOLIE SOMMAIRE GRANDE & CHINE GRANDE Energie ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Charbon, pétrole et gaz naturel ............................................................................................................. 5 Trade war cuts U.S. LNG exports to China in 2018 (Reuters) ..................................................................................... 5 China’s CNOOC hols LNG offshore as warm winter cuts spot demand (Reuters) .............................................. 6 China’s record 2018 oil, gas imports may be cresting wave as industry slows down (Reuters) ................ 7 Analysis: China’s LNG demand growth to slow in 2019 on domestic production, pipeline imports (S&P Global Platts) ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Total-invested China gas field pumps record 2,24 bcm in 2018 (Reuters) ....................................................... 10 China firms funding coal plants offshore as domestic curbs bite: study (Reuters) ........................................ 11 As winter grips rural China, who’s really paying the price for Beijing’s clean air plan (South China Morning Post) ................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 Nucléaire ...................................................................................................................................................... 14 China’s fourth Westinghouse-designed nuclear reactor begins operations (Reuters) ................................ 14 Rolls-Royce in talks to supply Chinese nuclear plant in Essex (Financial Times) .......................................... 15 Energies renouvelables .......................................................................................................................... 16 China powers up renewable energy but some wind farms still struggle to plug into grid (South China Morning Post) ................................................................................................................................................................................ 16 China installed 18 percent less solar power capacity in 2018 (Reuters) ........................................................... 17 China plans subsidy-free solar and wind projects (Bloomberg) ............................................................................ 18 The price of Chinese solar panels are about to go up (Fortune) ............................................................................. 19 China approves large new upstream dam project on the Yangtze river (Reuters) ........................................ 19 China’s State Grid to spend $5.7 billion on pumped hydro plants (Bloomberg) ............................................. 20 China’s Three Gorges rules out new domestic hydro projects (Reuters) ........................................................... 21 Yankuang entered agreement with Air Liquide (Communiqué de presse de l’entreprise Yankuang) .. 22 Electricité, réseau électrique ............................................................................................................... 22 Changji-Ququan +-1100 kV UHVDC transmission project starts power transmission (Communiqué de presse de l’entreprise State Grid) ......................................................................................................................................... 22 Route de la soie électrique: la Chine va-t-elle nous inonder d’électricité low cost (Futura Sciences)... 23 Environnement ................................................................................................................................................................... 25 Changements climatiques ..................................................................................................................... 25 China’s not too rich for World Bank loans, report says (Caixin) ............................................................................ 25 Revue de presse Développement durable Service économique régional de Pékin Databank puts info at world’s fingertips (China Daily) .............................................................................................. 27 China is wasting a useful resource – and worsening climate change instead (Quartz) ................................ 28 Here’s how climate change is going to affect China’s energy use (World Economic Forum / Futurity) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 Biodiversité, eau ....................................................................................................................................... 30 China bans discharge from open-loop scrubbers in coastal waters: official (Reuters) ................................ 30 China celebrates world wetlands day in Haikou (China Daily) ............................................................................... 31 The dark harvest of Chinese “black ships” (The Interpreter / Lowy Institute) ............................................... 32 Environmentalists want dam to stop desertification in Hoh Xil national nature reserve (China Daily) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 33 Exploitation of plateau lakes will end, Yunnan vows (China Daily) ...................................................................... 34 Hainan seeks to create a world-class zone of ecological civilization (China Daily) ....................................... 35 China unveils research center on Qilian mountains (China Daily) ........................................................................ 36 New toad species discovered in China (China Daily) ................................................................................................... 36 China’s greater Hinggan mountains sees expanding forest coverage (China Daily) ..................................... 37 Air ................................................................................................................................................................... 37 China’s Henan underperforms on smog after winter surge (Reuters) ................................................................ 37 China vows no leeway for underperformers in war on pollution (Reuters) ..................................................... 38 China’s top steelmaking city issues ‘orange’ smog alert (Reuters) ....................................................................... 39 Beijing won’t strengthen 2019 pollution target (Caixin) ........................................................................................... 39 Déchets et économie circulaire ........................................................................................................... 40 China starts new recycling drive as foreign trash ban widens (Reuters) ........................................................... 40 State Council promotes development of cities without waste (Communiqué du Conseil des affaires d’Etat de la République populaire de Chine) ................................................................................................................... 41 China takes on illegal lead battery recycling in new plan (Reuters) ..................................................................... 41 Deadly Hebei chemical factory blast was years in the making (Caixin) .............................................................. 41 Politiques et réglementations chinoises transversales ............................................................. 45 China’s pollution control meets 2018 targets (Xinhua) .............................................................................................. 45 China regions losing ‘momentum’ in pollution fight: minister (Reuters) ........................................................... 46 China’s first draft rules on chemicals hailed (China Daily) ....................................................................................... 46 Opinion publique et environnement................................................................................................. 47 How a corrupt testing system left pollution unchecked in China (Caixin) ......................................................... 47 Opinion: China’s carbon pricing system could become reference point for world (Caixin) ...................... 50 Opinion: strengthen safety net to protect wildlife (China Daily) ........................................................................... 52 Opinion: financing a greener future (China Daily) ........................................................................................................ 52 Opinion: China-EU common carbon pricing initiative would send powerful signal (China Daily) ......... 54 Transports 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