Whilst the Chinese government is finally acknowledging Beijing’s air pollution and acting on it, the Indian government still refuses to take action despite pollution levels in the capital New Delhi far exceeding its northern neighbor.
Vietnam will spend USD280 million on pollution reduction and environmental protection between 2012 and 2015, according to the Ministry of National Resources and Environment (MNRE).
While Beijing is planning to transition power generation to natural gas in a bid to improve the city’s notorious air pollution, the authorities should also concentrate on reducing the high levels of sulfur in vehicle fuel.
Taiwan's KentFa Advanced Technology is taking a different tack on recharging electric vehicles. Instead of installing individual recharging points, it is opening 60 scooter battery-exchange stations utilizing radio frequency identification technology (RFID).
The Manipur Renewable Energy Development Agency is to install 3,340 solar heaters in houses in the northeastern state of India, in an effort to conserve energy and reduce pollution.
With China’s economy continuing to grow at pace, the country’s solid waste disposal market has also seen rapid expansion with 131 million tons of urban waste processed using “harmless means,” which include landfill, composting and incineration in 2011, according to the government.
Beijing will take 180,000 old vehicles off the road and replace coal-burning heaters in 44,000 homes in a bid to cut air pollutants by 2 percent this year, according to the city’s acting mayor.
The Malaysian energy and water company, Ranhill Energy and Resources is planning to float on Kuala Lumpur stock exchange by the second quarter of 2013.
The South Korean government is planning to revise the traffic law to recognize bicycles as a means of transportation in a bid to include them in an integrated transportation system.
Beijing has proposed unprecedented new rules governing how China's capital reacts to hazardous air pollution, as deteriorating air quality continues to raise ire among the city’s 20 million plus residents.
The new Air Pollution Control Regulation will formalize previous ad-hoc measures by targeting vehicles, factories and even outdoor barbecues, and warns of large fines for those who break the rules.
A top environmentalist has hailed draft measures to clean up Beijing's air as a major breakthrough after record-breaking smog continues to besiege the city - but residents seem less impressed.
When it comes to polluted cities Asia leads the world. While Beijing was hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons as pollution rose to ‘off-the-scale’ levels, and Hong Kong’s government was revealing plans on how it is going to tackle the city’s pollution, there are a number of other cities throughout the region, which are in an even worse state.
While you may think Mongolia is all about un-spoilt wild landscapes and horses with little pollution, the latest data released by the UN Agency World Health Organization points to Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, as the world’s most polluted city.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will spend US275 million to help China bus operators to shift their fleets to cleaner fuel in a bid to lower emissions in major cities.
Hong Kong’s new Chief Executive C Y Leung made a range of sweeping promises in his maiden policy address today aimed at tackling the city’s pressing environmental issues, including the city’s stifling air quality and absence of any real efforts towards nature conservation.
"For the well-being of future generations, the government and the community must commit to improving the environment. To tackle key issues such as waste management and air quality requires us to make choices," Leung said
China's National Development and Reform Commission has renewed its efforts to control water resources and consequent shortages. It has ruled on minimum prices that regions must raise in their water resource rates by the end of 2015.
A Japanese investor has offered waste management technology to process garbage at the Putri Cempo dump in Mojosongo, Surakarta, Central Java, which has been overloaded with piles of waste for the last five years.
Four years after it was supposed to have cleaned up its act ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing has in recent days been experiencing some of the worst air pollution ever recorded.
Official measurements of PM2.5, the fine airborne particulates that pose the largest health risks, rose as high as 993 micrograms per cubic meter in the Chinese capital on Saturday, compared with World Health Organization guidelines of no more than 25. It was as high as 500 at 6am on Monday morning.
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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