Home furnishings giant IKEA is to partner with Chinese cleantech group Hanergy to install photovoltaic (PV) panels on IKEA-owned buildings across China, according to the company.
Singapore will take the problem of reforestation to new heights when it opens its 250-acre landscaping project – Gardens by the Bay – at the end of June complete with an imposing canopy of high-tech “supertrees.”
The solar-powered supertrees are found in the Bay South garden, which opens to the public on June 29. It is part of an initiative from Singapore's National Parks Board that will see the cultivation of flora and fauna from foreign lands, according to a recent CNN report.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has agreed to assist Thailand in developing provincial level eco-towns under the Green Partnership Program between the two countries, it was revealed yesterday.
South Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy said Monday that it will launch what it calls a "Hydrogen Town Pilot Project" in the first part of a program to establishing a community energy infrastructure that uses waste hydrogen and hydrogen fuel cell technologies, writes The Korea Herald.
Beijing municipal authorities have issued new "standards for public toilets management and service" and one of the hygiene control indicators stipulates that there should be no more than two flies in the toilets in places such as hospitals, supermarkets, parks and bus terminals.
Construction companies in Beijing will need to keep a close eye on emissions of dust and other forms of pollution at their existing construction sites if they want to bid on new projects, a city government official said Tuesday.
Construction of new energy-efficient homes, and retrofits of existing buildings, will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 42 percent from 2012 to 2020, the cleantech market intelligence firm Pike Research forecasts, producing 118.6 billion square feet of energy efficient residential space and driving an annual market value of USD84 billion by 2020.
The World Bank’s IFC is supporting the Indian state of Gujarat to replicate a rooftop solar project first completed in Gandhinagar to five more cities, improving access to power and reducing air pollution from the burning of wood and fossil fuels.
Energy-efficient buildings will account for 30 percent of China's new construction projects by 2020, according to an official document released Sunday.
The document was jointly released by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and is the country's first announced goal for the development of green buildings.
According to China.org, the move underscores China's intent to speed up the development of energy-efficient construction following other documents published earlier this year aimed at the same goal.
Several major Chinese cities have some of the world's highest per capita carbon footprints, a World Bank warned in a new report issued on Thursday. According to a story in the China Daily, greenhouse gas emissions in Tianjin, Shanghai and Beijing far exceed those of cities such as Paris, Tokyo, London, Barcelona and Jakarta the report stated.
Globally, most urban emissions come from transport, buildings and waste, but these three sectors only account for about 20 percent of China's urban emissions which are driven mainly by industry and power generation, largely because of its reliance on coal for energy.
China will invest more than 5 trillion yuan (USD796 billion) in energy saving and environmental protection projects and was hoping for closer collaboration between China and the EU, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said yesterday during the EU-China Cooperation on Urbanization Forum in Brussels.
Singapore’s parliament passed a new Energy Conservation Bill on Monday to introduce mandatory energy management practices for large energy users in the industrial and transport sectors.
An environment-friendly chapel, solar-powered and constructed from indigenous and recycled materials has been opened on the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos campus in the Philippine city of Bacolod.
The Beijing municipal government has announced plans to improve the quality of the city's air by covering 100,000 sq m of roofs with greenery by the end of this year as public discourse over the city’s pollution heats up.
The government of Singapore on Tuesday laid down a new mandate that will force large hotels and shopping malls to report how much waste they produce and their recycling targets.
Channel News Asia reported yesterday that Singapore’s Ministry of Environment and Water Resources will soon install surveillance cameras on high rise buildings to catch residents throwing liter from their apartments.
Singapore, which has long prided itself on its pristine cleanliness, had the largest carbon footprint per head in the Asia-Pacific in 2010, conservation group WWF said Monday.
Several communities wiped out in last year’s tsunami-devastated Fukishima Prefecture in Japan may be rebuilt as energy-efficient “future cities” under what some observers are calling highly ambitious plans.
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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