While China's cabinet mulls over what it can do next to boost its flagging electric vehicle market, short of legislating that people buy them, another environmental green vehicle project is meeting with better success.According to official data, almost 25,000 ageing vehicles were scrapped or sold to buyers outside of Beijing by the end of August. It was an 86 percent increase on the average for the previous seven months according to the China Beijing Environment Exchange.
Israel-based Lextran, a company focused on the removal of pollutants and toxics from flue gas emissions, has signed its second contract in China for the treatment of coal-fired flue gases of a steel factory.
According to a report in the Global Times, Shanghai residents can to receive up to 10,000 yuan (USD1,567) as a reward, if they are the first to report a strong odor that leads authorities to discover pollution problems, the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau said on Monday.
There is a mystery in Hong Kong: Why is roadside air quality so bad? The government has put in place various initiatives over the years to require new vehicles to comply with the latest standards, and to require the use of cleaner fuels.
As part of a campaign to improve Beijing's air quality, the Chinese government is offering drivers who scrap old cars or sell them to buyers outside the capital subsidies and cash to put toward a new vehicle.
There's a vast range of environmental issues that face cargo owners as they clean up their logistics process. Many of these companies have been focusing on reducing carbon emissions to meet regulation and to respond to growing consumer demands for lower carbon products.
Government of Macao Special Administrative Region has announced the creation of Environmental Protection and Energy Conservation Fund, providing financial support for purchasing green technology products and equipment, the Macao Daily Times reported on Thursday.
It appears that climate change deniers may have China to thank for the hiatus in global warming between 1999 and 2008 that has, hitherto, not been fully explained.
In a wide ranging and unusually frank press conference on Friday China's Vice Minister of Environmental Protection, Li Ganjie, told journalists that while the country had met pollution reduction targets set for the 11th Five-Year Plan between 2006 and 2010, three decades of fast-paced economic growth has nonetheless left its environment in very poor shape.
Thailand has opened a new division of the civil court to handle environmental cases. As problems with pollution grow exponentially, so do the legal disputes.
Dust is not the only makeup of China's infamous sandstorms, which also contain toxic pollutants from coal combustion, according to a new Greenpeace report, The True Cost of Coal - Coal Dust Storms: Toxic Wind.
More than two years after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the city's air quality continues to improve instead of degrading from the 2008 level, a Beijing environmental official said Wednesday.
As low-carbon and green concepts become more popular, more Chinese are opting for environment-friendly ways to pay tribute to their ancestors and deceased loved ones.
Lead emissions from a battery plant located in a residential area has poisoned more than 100 villagers in east China's Zhejiang Province, local environmental authorities said Friday, according to the People's Daily.
China will continue to lower the emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, major pollutants from coal burning, in its most populous city this year on the basis of 2010, as well as imposing the Vehicle Emission Standard V, vice minister of Environmental Protection Zhang Lijun told at the fourth session of the 11th National People's Congress today.
As widely anticipated, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao outlined a stream of green targets and initiatives at the opening of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Saturday when he laid out the roadmap for the world's second largest economy over the next five years.
China's cities have made small advances in environmental transparency in the past year but are still failing to achieve acceptable levels of pollution data disclosure, joint research by two green NGOs has found.
The Huaining county government in China's Anhui province's has shut down a battery factory after the environment protection bureau found the plant had caused the lead poisoning. The move comes despite the fact that, after re-examining 23 children suspected of having suffered lead poisoning in Gaohe township, provincial authorities said that amounts of lead in their blood were within normal levels.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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