Mike Dunn is a co-founder and managing editor of CleanBiz.Asia.
He has over 25 years experience in the Asia Pacific region, beginning his career as a journalist and then moving on to the field of corporate communications. He has sound knowledge of a wide range of industries, including technology, engineering, financial services, consumer products and public affairs.
A Canadian, Dunn has always held a keen interest in the areas of environmental protection and sustainability and was Director of Ogilvy Public Relations Hong Kong's sustainability practice, OgilvyEarth. He is also co-founder of Hong Kong's dedicated sustainability communications consultancy, Mode2 Company Ltd.
A graduate in Mass Communications from Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, Dunn also studied the ISO's 14001 Environmental Management Systems at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has advised on sustainability projects in Canada and Hong Kong, working with private, public and Non-Government Organizations.
A slew of announcements over the past few days have done nothing to shed any light on India’s wind power market, the world’s third largest, which, to be gentle, seems to be in an endless state of flux.
In a Bloomberg report on Monday a spokesman for Mytrah Energy, the country’s third largest wind developer, warned that the rate of new wind turbine installations was in a free-fall and would continue to be so due to the government’s inability to formulate a sound policy to support the industry.
The country may install as little as 1,500-MW of capacity by the year ending March 31, about half what it did the previous year
China will invest 2.37 trillion yuan (USD375.6 billion) in major energy-saving projects during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011-2015), according to the State Council yesterday.
In a separate, but related announcement, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) said yesterday that part of its development fund will be channeled into energy-saving programs of domestic airlines and plane manufacturers. Although not stated as such, this move has clear implications for China’s on-going dispute with the European Union over its tax on airline carbon emissions.
The announcement that Chinese company Alex Solar will build a massive 1-GW solar farm in central China’s Jinchang city, coupled with the rush by several Chinese solar firms to fill the nuke void in Japan indicates that China’s solar industry is still looking to a bright future.
Beleaguered by US trade sanctions, feed-in tariff cuts in Europe, collapsing photovoltaic (PV) panel prices, massive global over-supply of panels and a string of gloomy financial results by its once glowing solar stars, China’s solar industry would, by all appearances, be on the ropes.
Honda Motor has announced that it will provide its core hybrid car technologies to a number of Chinese automakers, eyeing to boost sales in the world's largest car market, a report said Sunday.
The move is sure to raise anxiety and criticism in Japan as many companies are very uneasy about investing in China or even promoting Chinese to senior management positions in their Chinese subsidiaries due to fears of theft and copying of the key proprietary technologies.
The establishment of an “environmental super ministry” and the introduction of very aggressive emissions targets, particularly for the building industry, were mooted today as a way of getting Hong Kong’s small business community more engaged in helping combat climate change.
The suggestions came amid growing discontent among environmental experts over the performance the government of one of China’s most modern and wealthiest cities has shown towards environmental stewardship, and as Hong Kong prepares to appoint a new Chief Executive to lead it through the next five years.
As China's demand for oil continues to grow, it is inevitable that accidents involving oil and other hazardous products in Chinese waters will continue to occur and likely increase in frequency. This was made clear as the world began to learn of multiple spills at an oil field in the Bohai Sea off the northeast coast of China, which have being ongoing since early June.
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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