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Global Influence
FYIT (Singapore)

FYIT (Singapore)

FY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SINGAPORE

EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY
UK

BSc (Hons) Business and Management

Module Code: BUS3010F
Module Name: Global Influences

Assignment

Green Initiative in China

Lecturer: Quek Pek Siong

Submitted by: Yang Yang

Student Number: 22417672

Date Submitted: 17th Mar 2013

Content

Tittle | Page | Cover page | 1 | Content | 2 | Introduction | 3 | Discus the Global warmingin the world | 4 | The Greenhouse effect | 4,5 | Green cooperate and business communities | 6 | Analysis the pollutions in China | 7,8 | Discus the current Greeninitiative development in China | 9,10 | Conclusion | 11,12 | Reference | 13,14 |

Introduction

China’s energy demand is increasing rapidly as a rapidly economic development. This trend is expected to continue for several decades. China’s rapid economic growth had caused the country and its people to pay for large social cost, the cost is unavoidable. Green development is the main concern for country development in china presently. In this assignment, the focus is on the green development of China as well as government initiative to achieve goals in green development.
In the first part of the assignment, a global point of view is referred. The strategies that the world is going through to promote the importance of green, as well as the key issues and potential solutions on Global warming which discussed at Doha Climate Summit. There is a importance cooperate call ‘Green peace’ is introduced in this assignment, which I believe this cooperate had played an importance to keep our world green for the past 20 years and will bebetter in the further.
In the second part of the assignment, the discussion of China’s pollution’s is reviewed. I have research that China’s main pollution problem is due to rapid growth in economic and being



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