Attending UNFCCC Climate Change Conferences for the last two years it is apparent that the world is heading towards conflict over water supplies if solutions are not soon found and the reality cannot be starker than in India.
According to reports in the Philippine press, China's BYD is planning to build a a manufacturing facility in the country to produce electric vehicles and components, a local Board of Investment (BoI) said recently.
Efforts will be intensified to promote water conservation in China as well as the sustainable use of the precious resource, and the task will be a multi-trillion yuan national priority, a central policy document said.
Japan's fifth largest car maker, Mazda Motor Corporation, is following on the heels of its rivals Nissan and Toyota in the development of a new electric vehicle (EV) with plans to commence leasing in Japan in the spring 2012.
The challenge of feeding a world population of nine billion by 2050 requires a radical overhaul of the entire agricultural system according to a just-published report based in a two-year study of the global food supply chain, involving 400 experts from 35 countries.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Washington US president Barack Obama and Chinese president Hu Jintao presented a united front on climate change, insisting that the two countries are jointly committed to tackling greenhouse gas emissions and playing a proactive role in climate change negotiations.
The UK government yesterday launched the E-Idea Competition, which aims to find Asian eco-entrepreneurs between 10 and 35 with ideas that will help address some of the biggest sustainability challenges for urban communities while making a positive impact on the way people live.
In a submission to Hong Kong's Legislative Council the Special Administrative Region's Environmental Protection Department (EPD) put a price tag yesterday on its proposed solutions to city's looming waste management problem
2010 was a watershed year for China's emerging electric vehicle (EV) industry with the National Energy Administration completing work on a set of standard for EV charging infrastructure.
Japan's big three auto manufactures are collaborating with the energy sector to smooth the way for the domestic launch of fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs) in the countries four largest metropolitan areas by 2015.
A leading advocate for sustainable tourism approaches in the Asia Pacific region has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the new UN-endorsed Global Sustainable Tourism Council
A number of surveys conducted in the region in the latter part of last year show a significant gap between consumer and business attitudes towards the environment and climate change.
In particular, business seems to underestimate consumers' willingness to dip into their pockets to buy green products and may be missing out on a huge market opportunity.
Chinese auto maker BYD Co is committed to selling electric and hybrid vehicles in the United States even after plans to offer an electric crossover to buyers in 2010 didn't materialize, the company's founder and chairman has said.
China's cities have made small advances in environmental transparency in the past year but are still failing to achieve acceptable levels of pollution data disclosure, joint research by two green NGOs has found.
A farmer in China is partnering with scientists to promote his design for low-carbon households. His concept, developed over the past 30 years on his farm in northeast China, is a combination of existing green technologies. Now the country's scientists want to scale up the design to make it affordable.
India has embarked on a new pathway towards developing a low-carbon transport system, days before the convening of the UN climate change convention in Cancun.
The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) has released the China Annual Report on the Prevention and Control of Vehicle Pollution for 2010 marking the first time that the government has publicly revealed vehicle emissions in the country.
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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