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The Pakistan Council for Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) on Monday began supplying wind-generated power to 1,560 homes and nine coastal guard check posts in its Sindh and Balochistan provinces, according to reports.

New research from the UK could prove useful to China's urbanisation drive and push for low-carbon economic development.

China's largest building materials manufacturer is claiming it's living up to its social and corporate responsibilities by employing green and clean technology.

Singapore's Sembcorp signed three new memoranda of understanding with Chinese authorities during the Singapore International Water Week.

CB Richard Ellis Group says it achieved carbon neutrality for its 2010 global operations and claims to be the first global commercial real estate services firm to become carbon neutral. The company set itself the goal of going neutral by 2010 as part of its Environmental Stewardship policy, which was rolled out in 2007.

It appears that climate change deniers may have China to thank for the hiatus in global warming between 1999 and 2008 that has, hitherto, not been fully explained.

With China's new Foreign Investment Catalog pushing several additional green industries into the "encouraged" category and the 12th Five Year Plan declared the "greenest in history," China is abuzz with talk about the green sector.

Carbon capture and storage and the production of electric vehicles will be two areas of focus under a new China-Germany investment program that will see the countries commit heavily to the cleantech space.

Just as the Beijing branch of the State Grid Corporation of China announced the completion of the Xizhimen charging station for electric vehicles, which is located within Beijing's Second Ring Road, a new report from TechNavio forecasts that the Chinese electric vehicle charging station market will grow at a compound annual rate of 153.2 percent over the period of 2010-2014.