As a high-level diplomatic talks took place between India's minister of external affairs, SM Krishna, and US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, a number of announcements at peripheral meetings saw the dollar total of clean energy investments, loans and grants rack up.
Japanese power companies fell short in the 2010 fiscal year of meeting their obligations under the country's Renewables Portfolio Standard Act, according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, reported Environmental website EcoSeed This week.
Private equity firm Hudson Clean Energy Partners on Tuesday said it is expanding into China as it seeks to capitalize on that nation's growing appetite for green technology.
The government of the Indian city of Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu state, has for the first time given approval for a private company to generate 1 MW of solar energy.
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs has unveiled renewable energy plan which includes boosting its wind power capacity from 530MW to 4,200MW by 2030.
Vietnam is to clean up its environmental act with a sweeping new tax on products ranging from plastic bags to pesticides according to a report in the Vietnam Business News.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called on Energy Minister Darwin Zahedy Saleh to start taking measures to save energy, including efficiency in the use of subsidized fuel oil, the country's Antara News reported yesterday.
Legal and management problems should be solved before ecological compensation for oil spills that occurred in June in the Bohai Bay affecting an area of over 4,000 square km are realized, some experts pointed out.
Traiton Global LLC of Germany is vying to build a desalination plant on India's Cooum river which could produce 600MW power and 75 million litres per day of clean water to the energy-hungry city of Chennai.
China Longyuan Power Group, China's largest wind power developer, has made its first overseas foray by acquisition a stake in a 100MW Canadian wind farm being built near Melancthon, Ontario.
Steel Group environmental company, have established of Pacific Eco Refining Co Ltd, the first joint operating entity to use the Hydrodec technology in Japan. The venture will treat low-level polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated transformer oil,
AccuStrata Inc says it has signed its first contract with an Asian photoelectric solar manufacture to improve performance and yields. The deal is with an unnamed crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturer in India.
"The AccuStrata platform improves solar conversion efficiencies by up to 20 percent depending on customer's manufacturing technology," says Dr. George Atanasoff, founder and CTO of AccuStrata.
Vietnam's first wind farm in the Mekong Delta has signed up US industrial-giant GE to provide 10 turbines for the project's first phase. The local developer Cong Ly Company is in charge of the Bac Lieu Wind Farm.
Sumitomo Electric Industries has developed a new material it is calling 'Aluminium-Celmet' that is says greatly improve the effiency of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries.
China's State Ocean Admnistration (SOA) is now saying the oil slick in the Bohai Sea was five times bigger than the 840 square kilometers (km2) previously reported.
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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