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While Xi did not provide any further details, NGOs and affected communities are clear about how the word “build” should be filled with meaning: The country has to end all support for new coal projects abroad, in terms of ownership, engineering contracts, insurance and/or public or private financial support.

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The Chinese government is systematically trying to channel into and anchor its view of universal human rights in international institutions such as the UN Human Rights Council. A joint project of the human rights organizations Amnesty International and Urgewald has therefore identified ten important terms or phrases used by the Chinese government that are already on their way to becoming new standards.

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300 years of coal mining in Kuzbass: No reason to celebrate

Kemerovo, Berlin | July 8th, 2021

This week, festivities in Kemerovo, Russia, celebrate the 300th birthday of Kuzbass as a mining region. Meanwhile, most of the residents have nothing to cheer about. Kuzbass is a pollution hot spot. Tom River, where the first coal deposit was found 1721, is the most polluted water body in the area. “Black Sky” events, and with it black snow, are getting more common every year. Under those conditions it is no surprise that Kuzbass is a region with high cancer rates and is leading the country in infectious diseases.