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Does Your Child Want to be a part of a beijingkids Photo Shoot?

Posted 7:00pm Mon Mar 5th, 2012 by pandaroo
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beijingkids is currently looking for a kid to feature in the next issue.
 
We only have a few guidelines.

UNFCCC Climate Talks in Tianjin: What’s the Big Deal?

Posted 7:52am Sun Oct 10th, 2010 by pandaroo
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The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks started this Monday, October 4 and will continue until this Saturday, October 9. This week of high-level meetings among representatives from about 200 countries is extremely important and could "make or break" the upcoming COP16 climate summit in Cancun in December, according to tcktcktck, a climate change global alliance.

The representatives are meeting to discuss questions such as: “Will billions of dollars of aid pledged in the Copenhagen Accord be honored? Will China, the world's biggest polluter, step forward as an unlikely climate hero? Will the multiple "gigatonne gap" between safe levels of atmospheric CO2 and pledged reductions finally be acknowledged?”


The Great Green Race

Posted 2:52pm Fri Oct 8th, 2010 by pandaroo
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China’s urban landfills are expected to reach capacity by 2020. “The Great Green Race (GGR)”, a community competition to collect as much waste as possible in select park areas of Beijing within a 2-hour time period, is developed by Greening the Beige in support of The Great Green Initiative (Chinese website). The latter is a collaborative campaign led by 10 prominent youth organizations with shared ambitions: to create 'green' youth culture in China and spur its sustainable development.


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