Ahead of the COP17 talks in Durban this November, India has convinced the other three BASIC countries - Brazil, South Africa and China -- to endorse its stand on equity, intellectual property rights and green trade barriers.
At a two-day meeting in Brazil the BASIC countries approved the Indian proposals, which had taken some strong negotiations to be put back on the table in the UN climate talks despite resistance from the developed countries.
Many of the world's largest hotel chains have announced they will take part in a major initiative designed to deliver carbon footprinting and reporting standards for the global hospitality industry.
China's district authorities in Qujing are investigating their own environmental watchdog for possibly being paid to ignore the illegal dumping of carcinogenic industrial wastes in Yunnan province.
The past couple of weeks have seen a flurry of multinational deals in the hybrid and electric car market. Latest to the table is China's Geely-owned Volvo.
China's nuclear power industry will expand at a slower rate compared with the past five years, but the country's nuclear development policies should not be changed drastically, the China Daily reported Wednesday.
Scientists at Tulane University in New Orleans have found a natural bacteria (dubbed TU-103) in animal droppings that produces butanol, a fuel that can serve as a substitute for convetional gasoline.
While butanol-producing bacteria aren't new, there are a few important points about this particular bacterium. It is the first known natural bacteria that converts cellulose directly to butanol without the cellulose needing to be processed into sugar first, and it can do this in the presence of oxygen, which kills other butanol-producing bacteria.
Sino Clean Energy has announced a memorandum of understanding to design and build a pilot coal-water slurry plant in Thailand for Nathalin Welstar Energy. It took five months of negotiations to ink the deal.
China's National Energy Bureau (NEB) has announced that it will end the current practice of local governments building hydroelectric power stations only to spur economic growth. In the past few weeks new dams and hydroelectric plants have been announced at Zhouqu (Gansu), Lanhe (Shaanxi), and Jiulongjiang (Fujian) rivers.
According to a report in the Global Times, Shanghai residents can to receive up to 10,000 yuan (USD1,567) as a reward, if they are the first to report a strong odor that leads authorities to discover pollution problems, the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau said on Monday.
Several well-known companies in China's nuclear power sector gathered recently in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to sign a raft of large-scale energy project contracts.
US car rental company Hertz Corp will provide electric vehicles as part of its rental business in China as part of its global roll-out of electric vehicles.
China has set a target of creating 1 million kw of concentrated solar power (CSP) by 2015, a government plan showed Friday, as part of its efforts to expand the use of alternative energy sources.
CSP plants produce electric power by converting the sun’s energy into high-temperature
Chinese photovoltaic equipment maker Beijing Jingyuntong Technology has set an initial public offering price at 50 times its historic earnings, boosted by demand from the country's push for solar energy.
The city of Zalandun in Inner Mongolia, has been continuously investing in and building its photovoltaic power project and has now become a model city for China’s alternative energy development.
Called the “Solar City”, Zalandun’s photovoltaic construction projects have a budget of 80 million yuan (USD12.5 million), and are currently installing non-silicon photovoltaic cells (BIPV) on the rooftops of a wide range of public buildings including the local forestry school, manufacturing plants, prisons, warehouses and health clinics.
India looks set to benefit from up to 30 clean tech projects being supported by the European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC), an agency co-funded by the European Union (EU) for promoting clean technologies in India, although the timeframe remains vague.
A planned increase in the national R&D budget announced by Thailand’s government along with tax incentives will be the main drivers moving Thailand towards a green economy, says a government think-tank.
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has put its B+ rating of solar wafer manufacturer LDK Solar on a credit watch following the Chinese company’s move to lower its financial guidance.
Singapore's Neste Oil has been awarded the Frost and Sullivan's Asia Pacific Green Excellence Award for Product Innovation in Bioenergy. It was ranked as the best performer for its product profile and business commitment to sustainability and environmental accountability in the category of chemicals.
China's top maritime official on Thursday urged US oil giant ConocoPhillips to finish cleaning up oil spills in north China's Bohai Bay before the arrival of a deadline set by the government, stating that the company will face "enhanced supervision" if it does not do so, according to Xinhua.
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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