The Hong Kong Government has ruled out the use of plasma gasification technology – citing scalability and reliability issues – as part of the solution to the city’s mounting solid waste management problem.
With its three current landfills due to reach capacity this decade, the administration has been pushing high-temperature incineration for some time but its funding request for an integrated waste management facility (IWMF) was rejected by the Legislative Council last year and the project’s environmental impact assessment is currently under judicial review.
With a series of new technical standards designed to enhance smart meter quality management and control set to come into force in August, China’s smart meter market to expand by 9 percent and break the 100 million-unit shipment threshold for the first time ever this year, according to market research company IHS iSuppli.
Advanced Batteries for utility-scale applications in Asia Pacific will surpass 25-GW in installed capacity by 2022, according to Navigant subsidiary, Pike Research.
Indonesia is using cloud-seeding techniques to protect its capital, Jakarta, from flooding with officials claiming they're already seeing positive results. The operation started in January and is expected to last two months.
Small and medium companies in India are becoming more energized to take part in new opportunities in renewable energy and biotech, and the introduction of new technologies like wireless in industrial solutions to major infrastructure companies, according to an interview carried in the Economic Times.
A new study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has concluded that the Internet and other information communication and technology (ICT) elements produce over 830 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year.
Massive investment is required to develop and deploy climate-friendly technology if global warming is to be halted and developing countries prepared to cope with the adverse consequences of climate change, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) told climate change delegates in Doha earlier this week.
The two-way communication between the scientific and business communities must be enhanced to ensure competitiveness of the Malaysian green technology industry in the global market, according to a report by Malaysia’s state-run news Agency, Bernama.
Panasonic has opened an “eco ideas” Factory in Vietnam which is aimed at producing eco-friendly products with sustainable industry practices and raising the level of eco consciousness in the local community.
From the second half of next year all building owners in Singapore will have to comply with the city state’s Green Mark standards, following an amendment to the Building Control Act. The city state has also launched a new dedicated green building rating system for data centers.
According to a recent report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, investment in energy-efficient telecom network infrastructure will reach USD194 billion annually by 2016.
All told, these investments could reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the telecom industry by 32 percent by 2016 compared to a business-as-usual scenario, the study concludes.
New research says that green IT and sustainability are emerging as key concerns for businesses, investors and policymakers in India and should be valued at USD70 billion by 2015.
Taiwan mobile phone maker HTC and UK network operator O2 have announced that the new, as yet unmade, version of HTC’s handset, will be sold without a battery charger in a bid to cut down waste.
In a report in the UK’s Guardian newspaper O2 estimates that of the 30 million new phones sold annually in the UK, 70 percent of their buyers already have a compatible charger for the handset.
The "flagship" HTC phone – expected to be unveiled shortly is expected to be a five-inch version of HTC's existing high-profile One X smartphone.
Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Toshiba have developed an advanced cooling technology that will enable data centers to be more energy efficient, cutting energy bills by one-third, according to a report by ScienceDaily.
A team of researchers at the City University of Hong Kong, backed by funding from Starbucks, are working on a new "biorefinery" that would turn food waste into something useful.
As CleanBiz Asia reported last week, the bodies of evidence that southeast Asian nations are facing ever-rising risks of natural disaster are again mounting. Maplecroft's second Natural Hazards Risk Atlas and the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2012 highlight the risks that Asian cities and coastal areas are facing from events such as flooding, earthquakes and tropical cyclones.
As of next year it will become mandatory for big building owners in Jakarta to comply with environmental guidelines as laid out in the governor’s 2012 regulation on green buildings, according to the Jakarta Post.
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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