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    Mar 02, 2023 3 minutes

    ENVOY AWARDED FOR GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFORTS

    Xie Zhenhua, China’s special envoy for climate change, received the Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST) Foundation’s Sustainability Award on February 21 in Stockholm, Sweden, for his outstanding contribution to global sustainable development.

    Born in Tianjin in 1949, Xie began working in the field of environmental protection in the 1980s. He was appointed head of the then State Environmental Protection Administration in 1998. He resigned after a chemical plant explosion incident in northeast China in 2005.

    In 2015, he stepped down from a position at the National Development and Reform Commission to focus on being a Chinese representative on climate change and has spoken widely

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