The India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), a statutory body under the Ministry of Power, has developed a rating energy efficiency building program which is based on the actual performance of a building in terms of its specific energy usage in kilo watt hour per square meter a year.
Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon on Tuesday said it has implemented a USD 1.8 billion debt restructuring package in an effort to put the company back on a sound business footing.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has signed a Chinese enterprise to be its strategic partner for its flagship awards for the first time.
New mandatory energy management requirements for large energy users in Singapore will come into effect Monday, April 29, the city-state’s National Environment Agency announced this week.
According to a new report from Navigant Research, worldwide unit shipments of LED lamps will grow from 68 million in 2013 to 1.28 billion annually by 2021. The markets for every other lighting technology will contract over that period.
Hopes of starting construction on the Beijing-Shenyang high-speed rail project this year have been dashed again following the rejection of an environmental impact assessment (EIA) report by a the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).
New research from Greenpeance and Peking University revealed that the Chinese capital’s air contains excessive amount of heavy metals, especially arsenic, which can lead to nerve system damage, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Osaka’s Kansai International Airport is to get the biggest solar installation at an Asian airport following an agreement to develop a 11.6-MW rooftop solar plant.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), together with the Bank of Shanghai on Saturday launched a 500 million yuan (USD80 million) financing and advisory program to support energy-efficiency and renewable-energy projects among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in China.
Builders of Tokyo Skytree, the 65 billion yen (USD656 million) broadcast tower which is almost double the height of the Empire State Building, say they aim to make their mark on more than just the Japanese metropolis’s skyline.
The United States has agreed to actively support South Korea which is seeking to export its nuclear power plants, although government sources also say the countries have failed, at least for now, to renew their bilateral accord on civilian nuclear cooperation.
The Philippine government has launched a new code of good practice for the refrigeration and air conditioning industry after the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and some other ozone-depleting substances (ODS).
India and Bangladesh signed a USD1.6 billion joint venture agreement to build a 1,320-MW coal-fired power plant which is expected to be operational within five years.
The official in change of China’s climate change program says the country will have enabling legislation to support a national carbon market in place by 2015.
India's grid-connected non-hydro renewable energy capacity, mainly solar and wind, has reached 27-GW, while the country’s total grid-connected power generation capacity is about 215-GW, according to a top Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) official.
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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