Asian Development Bank (ADB) president Haruhiko Kuroda, has called on Asian cities need to make the effort to become liveable, competitive, inclusive and environmentally sustainable cities.
China, the world's largest producer of incandescent and energy-efficient bulbs announced Friday that it will join the European Union and the United States and phase out incandescents.
That led to a big pop Friday morning in the shares of companies that produce alternative lighting systems, and those that make the equipment used to produce such alternatives as LEDs. That’s perhaps premature, since many of these companies are still reporting big drops in orders from customers in the consumer-electronics sector.
With news of another oil spill, this time off the coast of New Zealand, requests have been made for people to send knitted sweaters for the rescued penguins. 100 percent wool only, and yes, this is 100 percent true.
There is a strong link between knitting jumpers for penguins, dealing with the consequences of our consumer society, swap parties and being happier.
Taiwan’s energy intensity has been cut by 3.93 percent in the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010, a report in Taiwan Today quoted the Bureau of Energy under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) yesterday.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a new report focusing on energy poverty. The agency says 675 million people in developing Asia and more than 1.3 billion worldwide do not have access to electricity while those relying on traditional biomass for cooking amount to over 1.9 billion in the region and 2.6 billion globally.
“Those who live in the city want to bail out, while those who live outside of the city want to rush in (“城里的人想逃出去，城外的人想冲进来”)”. The famous motto in Qian Zhongshu’s "Fortress Besieged" (1947) is – more than marriage – a portrayal of urbanization in China today.Why do people in cities want to bail out and why do those outside want to rush in? Where are they going? Where do they want to go?
Excessive emissions of contaminated water in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in southern China, home to over 120 million people, has "severely polluted" fishing ports and seafood in the area, experts said.
"The content of copper and zinc in fishing ports near Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macau is much higher than in other domestic waters," Zhang Gan, a researcher with the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, told the Yangcheng Evening News.
Research company Organic Monitor has warned that consumers in Asia are being mislead by cosmetic companies claiming their products are organic or natural. With no private standards as in Europe or the US, companies are trying to win market share of the fast-growing natural and organic markets by mislabelling and making false claims.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB) has entered into a strategic collaboration with General Electric (GE) to jointly design new manufacturing solutions to gain energy efficiency and water savings in its current and 'greenfield' facilities in China.
The seedy business of shark fishing is coming under increasing pressure in its own main market – Asia. It's a business that could be worth over USD30 billion a year. The latest move against the business was the announcement of Singapore's supermarket chain Cold Storage (a subsidiary of Dairy Farm International Holdings) that it has joined the WWF Singapore Sustainable Seafood Group with a commitment to stop selling shark fin and shark products in its 42 outlets across the country.
Hotels will be able to contribute to climate change mitigation while also increasing their profits under a new United Nations-backed ‘green’ scheme offering an online toolkit to evaluate energy consumption, find renewable sources and improve energy management, thus cutting costs.
South Korea’s giant LG Group last week said it would push green energy business forward on a strategy titled “Green New Business” and is willing to bet 10s of billions of dollars over the next three years in doing so.
Only one in five Chinese consumers trust the quality of bottled beverages and others cite illegal additives as their major concern, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday.
Tune Hotels, the pioneering “limited services” hotel chain owned by Tune Group, a private investment firm headed by AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes, has signed of a Memorandum of Collaboration with General Electric (GE) to pursue sustainable development opportunities.
Today you’ll hear sustainable development mentioned everywhere from promoting the latest app, at a shoe launch or painted in bold across bill boards (add to this list every time you hear the word “sustainable”).
Taiwan has been a relatively quiet player in the tense dispute about territorial claims in the South China Sea. That could change with an unusual initiative that Taipei says is a peaceful approach to asserting its sovereignty in a body of water where China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei also have claims.
Urban farming methods can enable city dwellers to grow their own food, save money and reduce carbon emissions from transport and energy use associated with food production.
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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