Greenpeace's has just released its 2012 Cool IT Leaderboard, with Google taking the top spot in the ranking technology firms' environmental efforts, seizing the crown from networking giant Cisco.
Officials in South Korea’s third-largest city plan to use Cisco’s Smart+Connected Communities program to create blueprints for more technologically advanced and networked neighborhoods in the Ju An 2 and 4 Dong areas of Incheon
Like Google and Microsoft before it, Cisco has decided to pull down the curtain on its Home Energy Management offering, a combination of a controller and services that it announced last year. The move mirrors Google's recent decision to kill its PowerMeter and Microsoft's upcoming mothballing of its Hohm energy monitoring service.
Nusajaya, a 24,000-acre real-estate development on the southwestern tip of the Malaysian peninsula, is working to become a "smart," digitally connected city, according to green technology website, GreenBang.
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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