The Bombay high court has directed the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) to initiate action against industries causing high pollution and submit an action taken report on May 3.
The Supreme Court of India has given the nod to begin test burning of the toxic waste from the long-condemned Union Carbide factory that led to the Bhopal gas tragedy in 1984.
A new online tool unveiled by the WWF and German development finance institution Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG) allows companies to identify water risk within their supply chains and provides steps to mitigate that risk, which is becoming a major concern for companies operating in China and the rest of the Asian region.
Japan’s Panasonic Corporation yesterday announced it will set up an engineering company for its energy saving, purification and recycling businesses for air, water and soil in Malaysia as part of the company's drive to globally expand its environmental engineering business.
A senior Chinese official has claimed that water shortages, pollution and environmental deterioration have restrained sustainable development in the country, despite large and ongoing water conservation efforts, according to Xinhua.
Shanghai plans to adopt its "strictest water policies yet" to ensure that the city’s resources are managed responsibly, Shanghai Water Authority said Thursday, after launching an official microblog to mark 20th World Water Day.
Water purification is a mammoth business for both local Chinese and international suppliers as the population of more than 1.3 billion is more than ever concerned about the quality of what they drink, according to the China Daily.
Environmental scientists have issued strong warnings against the development of 12 hydropower projects along the Mekong River claiming that they will cause non-recoverable damage to the river’s ecosystem as well as threaten food security of residents in the riparian countries.
The Italy Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea signed a MOU with China's Ministry of Environmental Protection last week to further promote bilateral cooperation in environmental protection between the two countries.
The plastic industry has launched an offensive against the use of brown paper bags and recycled newspapers to wrap food—environmentalists’ proposed alternatives to plastic bags that are known to pose a huge threat to the environment, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Authorities in south China's Guangdong Province were working yesterday to clean an oil spill on the Xijiang River which threatens drinking water to the southern city of Jiangmen, home to four million people.
China's Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei has announced plans for the government to channel USD636 billion of investment from both public and private sources in various water-related projects through to 2020.
Speaking at the Ministerial Conference of the World Water Forum in Paris this week Chen said a package of favorable policies will be offered to encourage the private sector to tap into the country's multi-billion-dollar water conservancy infrastructure construction sector, with some of the projects open to foreign investors.
The rapid growth of cities across the developing world has resulted in urban areas overtaking rural communities as being the most vulnerable to wide scale flooding, according to a report from the World Bank.
The output value of China's environmental equipment industry rose 31.64 percent year-on-year to reach 130.46 billion yuan (USD20.71 billion) in 2011, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said today.
Deputies at the meetings of the China’s National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference have been subject to a water conservation publicity campaign by the Beijing Travel Committee, a local government agency, Champion of the Water Alliance, an NGO.
Posters placed outside conference rooms at hotels where deputies to the two sessions of have been staying have exhorted them to: “Mark your bottled water and please be sure to drink it all.”
The government of India has released a draft report, The National Water Policy 2012, which would favor the privatization of water-delivery services in the country by suggesting pricing of water to recover operation costs and administration of water projects, according to Times of India.
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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