Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has introduced a three-year action plan aimed at making further reductions in carbon dioxide emissions on both the production and end-use sides, and to put greater focus on the three Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) within its operations.
China is making the industrialization of pure electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid automobiles the focus of its new plan to develop energy-saving and alternative-energy vehicles by 2020.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and the Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., Ltd. today jointly announced the establishment of the world's first process to extract rare earth metals from various used parts in Honda products
Singapore’s parliament passed a new Energy Conservation Bill on Monday to introduce mandatory energy management practices for large energy users in the industrial and transport sectors.
Flamboyant Philippine Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago has proposed a new “Solar Roofs Act” to provide competitive grants and incentives that would prompt local governments around the nation to advance the solar mission in their regions, according to a report in the Philippine daily Inquirer.
The Philippine government said on Tuesday, that it can meet its renewable energy capacity target in the next three to five years so as to cut electricity prices and attract more investors.
World bank investment arm International Finance Corporation (IFC) and a fund managed by Global Environment Fund (GEF) are looking to invest up to USD11.5 million in Bangalore, India-based energy efficiency company, Kalki Communication Technologies.
BYD Co, the Chinese car and battery maker backed by US billionaire Warren Buffett, said yesterday its net profit is expected to plunge by up to 95 percent year-on-year for the first quarter of 2012, dragged mainly by its solar power battery business, according to a report in the Global Times.
South Korea will invest 1.08 trillion won (USD 1 billion) into research and development (R&D) for energy industry this year in a bid to secure fresh energy resources and brace for the possible accidents involving nuclear power plants, the economy ministry said Tuesday.
Corrado Clini, Italy's minister of environment, said Monday that China's efforts to reduce CO2 emissions will drive clean energy innovation and introduce new technology to the field.
China revealed yesterday that it had failed to attain half of its energy conservation and emissions control targets in 2011 but the country's top economic planner maintains that it will reach all the goals set out last year for the 12th Five-Year Plan.
Zhang Ping, minister of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told journalists on the opening day of the Fifth Session of the 11th National People's Congress that targets for energy consumption per unit of GDP, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP, and nitrogen oxide emissions were not met due to "a couple of complicated reasons".
Several communities wiped out in last year’s tsunami-devastated Fukishima Prefecture in Japan may be rebuilt as energy-efficient “future cities” under what some observers are calling highly ambitious plans.
The Chinese Government has announced plans to let the market play a role in helping users be more economical with their energy use and protect the environment.
Before celebrations break out among the free-market followers of Adam Smith, however, it should be pointed out that the announcement came from the Pricing Department of China’s mighty National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). It emphasized that when the reformed system of energy and resource pricing is introduced later this year, it will be timed to minimize impacts on consumer prices.
China aims to cut its energy consumption per unit of industrial value-added output by 21 percent during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement on Monday.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) will acknowledge the coming of age of the renewable energy sector by publishing, for the first time, an annual medium-term report which analyses that market.
The Sino-Singaporean Eco-City in north China's port city of Tianjin will get another 16 billion yuan (USD2.54 billion) this year to speed up construction of the massive green city, one of the largest in the world, according to Xinhua.
China yesterday established its first renewable energy policy research think tank conduct research and to develop programs and policies on renewable energy.
Wanxiang America, the US subsidiary of the Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang Group Corp, announced yesterday that it is planning to invest USD100 million in a US electric vehicle venture.
India’s cabinet may approve a proposal to increase duty on imports of power generation equipment to 19 percent to help local manufacturers Bharat Heavy and Larsen & Toubro Ltd, compete against Chinese suppliers.
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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