April 18, 2013 | Southeast Asia Globe, Filed under: Business, Myanmar | By: Joshua Brown Will the Myanmar mining sector become a fountain of cash, or will it prove to be a regulatory black hole? By Joshua Brown http://sea-globe.com/myanmar-gold-rush/ Myanmar has come face-to-face with the prospect of a literal gold rush. With significant stores of Read more…
Budget 2011: Green bank is coalition’s biggest environmental test Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 23 March 2011 10.40 GMT The green investment bank will be unveiled in the 2011 budget after wrangling between the Treasury (above) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change over how it will operate. Read more…
04:45 AM Dec 11, 2012 by Dennis Posadas If we look at a lot of Asian cities like Manila and Bangkok, we find an extraordinary amount of gridlock especially during the peak hours going to and from work in the business districts. Despite the preponderance of mass transit systems in Read more…
Solar Panels on South-east Asia’s first Zero Energy Building in Singapore, which produces enough energy to run itself. By 2015, the clean energy industry could contribute S$1.7 billion to the country’s GDP. The current economic conditions have been described by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) UK economic analysts as the “new normal”. Read more…
04:45 AM Dec 05, 2012 The polar ice packs are shrinking at rates which exceed scientific projections made only a decade ago. Temperatures across the globe are increasing. The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that its best-case projection is for a 1.1 °C rise by the end of the Read more…
NEW YORK – Global emissions of carbon dioxide were at a record high last year and are likely to take a similar jump in this year, scientists have reported, in the latest indication that efforts to limit such emissions are failing. Emissions continue to grow so rapidly that an international Read more…
04:45 AM Nov 20, 2012 WASHINGTON – All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the world’s poorest countries that will be hit hardest by food shortages, rising sea levels, cyclones and drought, the World Bank said in a report on climate change. Under new Read more…
YUZAWA CITY, Japan — Tarobee Ito, 69, is the guardian of a family legacy that has survived for more than 12 generations: He manages Tarobee Ryokan, a traditional Japanese onsen ryokan, or hot spring inn, one of about a dozen inns at the Oyasu thermal gorge near Yuzawa City in Read more…
On the first Earth Day, celebrated 40 years ago this month, the U.S. was a poisoned nation. Dense air pollution blanketed cities like Los Angeles, where smog alerts were a fact of life. Dangerous pesticides like DDT were still in use, and water pollution was rampant — symbolized by raging Read more…
“This November, vote for a president who will lead on climate change.” It was great to read Michael Bloomberg’s tweet yesterday, endorsing Barack Obama’s election campaign for all the right reasons. As the devastating effects of Superstorm Sandy have shown this past week, climate change is a very real threat Read more…