The Chinese government has signed an agreement with Israeli hydrokinetic developer Eco Wave Power (EWP) in a bid to promote economic trade and collaboration between the two parties.
The Beijing municipal government's three-year-old household waste-sorting campaign now has 2,400 communities participating in energy-saving recycling measures, with another 600 to follow suit this year, the city government says.
Most first-tier cities in China are barely suitable for living due to their poor ecological environment, despite rapid economic development and preferential regulations for investment, said a newly released report by a top Chinese think tank.
Goldman Sachs is reported to have committed JPY50 billion (USD487 million) for the development of solar and wind power generating projects in Japan over the next five years.
China, the US and the EU appear to be looking for common ground in an effort to settle the long-running tit-for-tat dispute over the trade in solar equipment between the world’s largest economies.
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will provide low-interest loans to companies that borrow residential rooftop space for solar power generation.
China may be on the verge of imposing anti-dumping duties on imports of polysilicon in apparent retaliation for levies the EU is considering and the US has already imposed on Chinese solar exporters.
According to a Bloomberg report, quoting anonymous sources, China’s Ministry of Commerce has completed probes that determined the US and EU are subsidizing producers of polysilicon and that imports of the commodity harmed its domestic companies.
Hong Kong’s main source of water supply, Dongjian, was found to contain heavy metal concentration 60 percent higher than China’s water standard, Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily reported.
The Hong Kong Taxi & Public Light Bus Association last week rolled out its first six electric taxis supplied by Warren Buffet-backed Chinese EV maker, BYD.
India’s biggest lender, The State Bank of India has announced a plan to work with Jain Irrigation Systems, Asia’s largest irrigation-equipment maker, to help farmers reduce water usage and increase productivity.
The Japan Asia Group is reportedly preparing to roll out 500-MW of solar projects in Japan as it considers reducing its European operations, according to Bloomberg.
Japan has begun what will likely be the first permanent shutdown of one of its reactors since the Fukushima disaster on the grounds that it is built atop an active earthquake fault.
Japan-based renewable energy projects developer Eurus Energy Holdings, a joint venture between Toyota Tsusho and Tokyo Electric Power, is planning to construct a USD480 million solar plant.
The 115-MW solar plant planned in the northern part of the country is expected to commence construction in July 2013.
A source from China's top economic planning body said the authority has finished collecting opinions about the feed-in tariff ratings of China's solar industry, which indicates the finalized scheme may be issued soon, according to the China Securities Journal.
Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia and beachwear brand Quiksilver have signed an agreement with Indonesian flag-carrier airline, Garuda, to co-operate on reducing rubbish along the coast of Bali.
The chairman and acting president of Sinovel Wind Energy Group, Wei Chiyuan, has resigned as of one of the country's largest makers of wind turbines struggles amid an industry downturn, according to a report in news portal, Caixin Online.
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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