JinkoSolar, the China-based solar power product manufacturer has said it has completed phase 1 of its environment safety upgrade at its facility in Haining City in the Zhejiang Province of China.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB) has entered into a strategic collaboration with General Electric (GE) to jointly design new manufacturing solutions to gain energy efficiency and water savings in its current and 'greenfield' facilities in China.
Ford Motors may make electric cars in China said chief executive officer Alan Mulally in a Bloomberg Television interview. But he was short on details as to when this might happen even though rivals General Motors and Daimler have already nailed down plans with local partners.
China’s pioneering electric vehicle company, BYD Co, is considering cutting as many as 7,000 jobs in its automobile unit to bring down costs, according to an unconfirmed media report on Saturday, the Global Times reported.
Only one in five Chinese consumers trust the quality of bottled beverages and others cite illegal additives as their major concern, according to the results of a survey released on Tuesday.
Thailand’s Siam Cement Group has topped Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) building material and fixture sector for the first time, convincing the conglomerate’s management that it is on the right business course, according to a report in the Nation newspaper.
Plans for China and India to generate more solar power may increase lead pollution, according to a study published last month, according to a report in SciDev.net.
The safety supervision and economic departments in China’s Haining, Zhejiang Province, have ordered JinkoSolar Corporation to halt production to put a stop to the discharge of pollutants. A number of people have also been detained for destroying the company's property, the Haining government said.
A variety of factors are thought to be behind Toyota's announcement that it will manufacture key components for its hybrid cars in China. Hiroyoshi Yoshiki, a senior Japan-based Toyota executive, said at an auto conference in Tianjin recently that the company is considering a move to shift to China production of some of the key components for hybrid and other heavily electrified cars.
Local mining authorities in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, have ordered three rare earth mines to halt production by year-end, according to local mining authorities, according to Global Times.
Oscar Widle's novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey, tells of a beautiful and idealistic young man who sells his soul to ensure that his portrait will age rather than himself. He subsequently leads a life of debauchery, but the portrait serves as a disturbing reminder of the effect each act has upon his soul, with the sins displayed as a disfigurement of his form.
Bangladesh, which emits relatively fewer polluting gases but is projected to be highly vulnerable to global warming, has embarked on a drive to introduce environment-friendly brick-making technology to curb gaseous emissions.
Sportswear giant NIKE last week raised the sustainability stakes for similar global brands by announcing an action plan to eliminate hazardous chemicals from its supply chain by 2020.
China's Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLR) has suspended the acceptance of new rare earth mineral prospecting right and mining rights applications while stressing the need to crack down on illegal and excessive exploitation of rare earth minerals in order to maintain orderly development.
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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