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.
Dutch companies are to help Hong Kong deal with its mounting waste problem under an agreement signed by foreign trade minister Lilianne Ploumen and the city’s Secretary for the Environment, K S Wong.
Billionaire Warren Buffett has no plans to buy Suntech Power Holdings, according to an interview he gave to the China Business News at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholder meeting.
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of the Chinese city of Kunming to protest against the planned production of a chemical at a refinery, in the latest show of concern over the effects of rapid growth on the environment.
The controversial Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu state has been given the go-ahead to start operations following a ruling by India's Supreme Court.
The judges said the plant was "safe and secure" and "necessary for the welfare and economic growth of India".
The European Trade Commissioner, Karel De Gucht, is expected to tell his fellow EU commissioners on Wednesday that Brussels should levy punitive import duties on solar panels made in China, according to Reuters.
As far as consumers in China are concerned, the European Union and its problem of horse meat being passed off as beef must seem like paradise after news broke yesterday that 63 people have been arrested for selling rat meat disguised as mutton.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has given the Indonesian province of Aceh the dubious title as the country’s worst performer when it comes to protecting Indonesia’s dwindling forests, according to the Jakarta Post.
BYD has unveiled ambitious plans to eventually build as many as 1,000 plug-in electric buses a year at a refurbished RV manufacturing plant in a wind-swept, sage-dotted corner of California’s Mojave Desert.
The World Bank has agreed to loan Vietnam’s Da Nang city USD202.5 million to support its Sustainable City Development Project.
The funds will be used to help improve the city's drainage systems and arterial roads, upgrade the public transport system and enhance the city government's urban management capacity.
World Bank Country Director for Vietnam Victoria Kwakwa told the Vietnam News that she hopes that the project will create a good model for a "green city" and sustainable urban development to inspire similar development in other cities across Vietnam.
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) has called on Toshiba to supply it with smart meters as part of it ambitious plan to deploy such devices in 27 million Japanese households over the next 10 years.
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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