In the face of mounting criticism, China has completed the first draft of a Soil Protection Law, but it is doubtful that it will be included in the State Council’s legislation plan until 2014 at the earliest.
Renewable energy companies from China and Hong Kong are facing debts of USD3.5 billion this year and the equivalent of USD5.3 billion of notes due next year, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, citing Bloomberg data.
Indonesia’s palm oil producers must stop establishing new plantations on peatland if they want to obtain certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in a bid to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGN) is planning to invest 4.5 billion yuan (USD731 million) in an offshore wind farm adjacent to one of the islands of Pingtan Country, off the coast of Fujian Province. The company says, rather optimistically, that it hopes to start project construction next year.
China Merchants New Energy Group, a Hong Kong-based renewable-energy project developer, will form a joint venture with Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Investment Co to invest USD489 million to develop solar farms.
Vietnam’s Prime Minister has approved a master plan for the building of an extensive drainage and waste water treatment system in residential areas and industrial parks in the Nhue-Day river basin, part of Red rivers system, by 2030.
India once dominant wind giant Suzlon Energy has been booted from its top spot and replaced by another local turbine supplier, Wind World (India) Ltd, formerly known as Enercon (India) Ltd.
Fish piracy - seafood caught illegally, not reported to authorities or outside environmental and catch regulations - represents as much as USD10 billion to USD23 billion in global losses each year, claims a non-profit conservation group. The report also estimated that the illegal trade threatens 260 million jobs that are dependent on marine fisheries.
Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea’s largest automaker, is to install the nation’s largest rooftop PV power plant at its manufacturing factory in the city of Asan, on the northern outskirts of Seoul.
China's LED industry is facing a drastic shake-up caused by failing firms and price drops, according to a recently released report, which revealed that the average price of Chinese made LED chips declined 32 percent year on year in 2012.
Greening global trade is a vital step to achieving sustainable development, and developing countries are well positioned to help catalyze this transition, according to a new report released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The European Commission is ready to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China in a move to guard against what it sees as Chinese dumping of cheap goods in Europe.
Analyst firm RepuTex has launched a new online data source which will provide investors, companies and the public with access to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance scores on over 1,000 of its Asia rated companies.
Smart phone rivals Apple and Samsung now share a rather ignominious position after having both been slammed on child exploitation and environmental pollution charges by environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE).
About USD500 million worth of clean energy contracts have been signed in India so far this year with not a single deal being struck in the conventional energy sector, according to a report in the Economic Times.
Norway’s Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) has announced it will deliver 72-MW of its high efficiency solar panels for the construction of six solar farms in Thailand’s Nakhon Pathom and Suphan Buri provinces.
China, South Korea and Japan say they will enhance trilateral co-operation to cope with global and regional environmental issues, particularly in air pollution in Northeast Asia.
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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