Indian companies are increasingly becoming aware of sustainable practices and adoption of these, as they realize that it will help mitigate their sustainability issues and bring business benefits in the future, business consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan has said.
After announcing the resignation of its general manager, the suspension of several employees and apologizing to customers, Coca-Cola has started to offer exchanges and refunds for chlorine-tainted products that were produced at the bottling plant of its North China arm, Shanxi Beverages Co.
Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA, Europe’s second-biggest wind-turbine maker, is taking advantage of manufacturing costs even below those of China to open a third factory in India.
Australian rare earths miner Lynas has launched legal action against the most vitriolic opponents of its proposed plant in Malaysia following fierce criticism that it is unsafe, according to AFP.
Japan and Vietnam are moving closer toward joint development plans for nuclear energy and rare earth in Vietnam, the Japanese Foreign Ministry has stated.
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.
For those concerned with the burden on China’s environment from it being the 21st Century’s “workshop of the world”, Apple’s agreeing to the presence of external monitors during the auditing of pollution controls at a Chinese supplier’s factory comes as a welcome development.
The weekend edition of the Financial Times reported that the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) has been invited to attend the inspection of a printed circuit board plant in the next few weeks.
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and the Japan Metals & Chemicals Co., Ltd. today jointly announced the establishment of the world's first process to extract rare earth metals from various used parts in Honda products
A Malaysian court has dismissed a bid to stop a rare earths plant run by Australian miner Lynas from going online over fears it will harm the environment by producing radioactive pollution, according to a report by AFP.
China's rare earth industry set up an association over the weekend which it says is aimed at spurring healthy development in the sector, according to Xinhua.
A new online tool unveiled by the WWF and German development finance institution Deutsche Investitions-und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH (DEG) allows companies to identify water risk within their supply chains and provides steps to mitigate that risk, which is becoming a major concern for companies operating in China and the rest of the Asian region.
Not being a fan of unnecessary competition, China’s government has announced plans to re-organize the country’s rare earth mining industry into two or three large players. The move, however, will do nothing to ease international trade tensions related to the export of these minerals
On the side of the annual session of the Nataional People's Congress minister of industry and information technology Miao Wei that China will retain limits on rare-earth export quotas after the industry rationalization.
This will no doubt reinforce the intent of the US government launch a trade suit against China at the World Trade Organization over its restrictions on the exports of rare earth.
The European Union (EU) is gearing up to join the US in filing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy moves against imports of Chinese photovoltaic solar panels, according to reports.
Senior Chinese legislators on Monday started their second round of talks on a draft amendment to the country's Law on the Promotion of Clean Production, according to Xinhua.
Thousands or Malaysians protested over the weekend against a rare earth plant which locals fear will produce radioactive waste harmful to them and the environment, according to media reports.
The cadmium spill in Guangxi province has been the headlines for a few days now and there could be more to come. With two out of the three main tributaries of the Pearl River (西江和北江，the west and the north tributary Xijiang and Beijiang) now contaminated with cadmium, will the Dongjiang (东江，the east tributary) be next?
Many people in the Pearl River basin are very concerned about the current situation in Guangxi but few remember that seven years ago there was an even worse cadmium spill close by, on a section of Beijiang that runs past Shaoguan 韶关市) in Guangdong province.
The Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has begun to solicit public views on a draft amendment to the current regulation of green food labels issued in 1993, according to the ministry yesterday.
Vietnam has adopted investment policies that will encourage businesses to use green technology for generating energy and manufacturing non-toxic products according to the VNEconomyNews.com.
China is suffering from an increasing number of environmental accidents, mainly triggered by the rapid growth of the chemical industry in the wake of urbanization, a senior environmental official said.
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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