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”).
Vietnam's government has set a time frame for the introduction of vehicle emissions rules based on EU standards. Only newly manufactured, assembled or imported motor vehicles will be required to comply with the tightened emission limits which will come into effect in 2017, reports Vietnam News Agency.
A variety of factors are thought to be behind Toyota's announcement that it will manufacture key components for its hybrid cars in China. Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, a senior Japan-based Toyota executive, said at an auto conference in Tianjin recently that the company is considering a move to shift to China production of some of the key components for hybrid and other heavily electrified cars.
In the absence of a good governance system China’s “Power the Nation” dream is pushing the country into rapid environmental deterioration. Throughout this year, the alarm bells have been ringing:
Mitsubishi is collaborating with Bangkok’s Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) to launch road tests of a new-generation electric vehicle (EV) known as the MiEV, according to the Bangkok Post.
While other large car companies have been announcing deals to develop new technologies, Mitsubishi New Zealand has signed up SolarCity to provide its new EV car customers with a rooftop solar system, which should pay for the car's use. Laudable as Mitsubishi's marketing strategy is, the scheme brings into sharp focus dark shadows around New Zealand's policy on solar energy.
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.
More than 200 clean tech public transport vehicles were put into service in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, at the weekend.The new energy vehicle fleet are composed of 30 electric buses, 170 hybrid buses and 27 electric taxis, according to Xhinua.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao called for more sustainable usage of land and natural resources during his Friday inspection of the Ministry of Land and Resources reports Xinhua.
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.
Bangladesh, which emits relatively fewer polluting gases but is projected to be highly vulnerable to global warming, has embarked on a drive to introduce environment-friendly brick-making technology to curb gaseous emissions.
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.
China's district authorities in Qujing are investigating their own environmental watchdog for possibly being paid to ignore the illegal dumping of carcinogenic industrial wastes in Yunnan province.
The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of multinational deals in the hybrid and electric car market. Latest to the table is China's Geely-owned Volvo.
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.
Investing just 0.16 percent of global GDP in the water sector could reduce scarcity and halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in less than four years, according to United Nations research.
A team from Indonesia has demonstrated that you don't need an advanced auto manufacturing sector to get into the electric vehicle race by rolling out a hot open-wheel sports car called the SKEV-1 on Indonesian National Day earlier this month.
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.
US car rental company Hertz Corp will provide electric vehicles as part of its rental business in China as part of its global roll-out of electric vehicles.
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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