The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) yesterday kicked off its new environmental initiative, dubbed the National Strategy on Climate Change
Xinhua reported yesterday that lawmakers in China are calling for the establishment of a system to recycle discarded home appliances and electronic goods to reduce environmental pollution.
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.
People have grown accustomed to believing that the gross domestic product (GDP) is what really matters; that it could be used to demonstrate a society’s well-being. It was, however, never created with this intent.
Simply, GDP measures the amount of money that changes hands, but how much we have in our pockets does not adequately tell us how well we are doing, in all the dimensions of our lives.
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.
China's industrial authority said Tuesday that it will introduce trials for methanol-fueled cars in three provincial level regions starting this month.
Faced with growing public discontent over pollution in the air, water and streets, Beijing City will implement new controls that will affect car owners, government offices and any organization that produces food waste.
The Sino-Singaporean Eco-City in north China's port city of Tianjin will get another 16 billion yuan (USD2.54 billion) this year to speed up construction of the massive green city, one of the largest in the world, according to Xinhua.
Up to 33 million people in Africa and Asia living in poverty will have access to low-cost energy by 2016 through a global initiative supported by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the UN agency announced Thursday.
Nine supermarket chains in the United States have responded to the World Wildlife Fund’s new “Don’t Flush Forest Tigers” campaign by dropping toilet and tissue paper brands that use wood fiber from Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) group.
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has begun to solicit public views on a draft amendment to the current regulation of green food labels issued in 1993, according to the ministry yesterday.
In a somewhat ironic move for the people that invented paper, China is now actively promoting reducing its use and more recycling in order to save resources and protect the environment, according to the country's new five-year plan for its paper industry.
I recently attended a meeting in a large, airy building with wooden beamed ceilings and a huge Christmas tree in the corner to talk with committee members of a new environmental initiative charged with promoting green living throughout the organization.
With such campaigns as Meatless Mondays, Lights Out Fridays, and a complete ban on the use of plastic bottles, one would think you were talking to a large corporation making its first moves into the sustainability world.
A former Panasonic manufacturing site 50 kilometres west of Tokyo is being used to develop Japan's first sustainable town, according to a Fairfax report.
Dhaubadi, in remote Nepal has become the ADB's first 'renewable energy village',as the Times of India called it. Using money from the Asian Development Bank and in partnership with the local community and government, the pilot wind-solar hybrid power system brings power to the village. Other clean-tech solutions are being integrated into the pilot.
The development allows villagers to work at night by light, recharge mobile phones and even watch television, but its key is local participation.
Millions of people are under threat from melting of Himalayan glaciers, according to scientists carrying out the most comprehensive ever assessment of climate change in the region.
A Malaysian company is investing USD257.8 million in an 'eco-friendly' paper factory that use biomass waste from palm oil production. Ecopalm Paper plans to develop it corrugated paper plant in Pekan, Pahang, in three-phase.
According to the company there is a rising demand for eco-friendly packaging due to stricter regulations in countries like Japan, Europe and the EU.
Eight countries in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan region are making progress in development and uptake of renewable energy technologies, which can maintain sustainable economic growth for mountain communities, a workshop in Kathmandu heard in earlier this month.Further investments could provide environmental, social and economic benefits to mountain communities, experts told the meeting, which was organised by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
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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