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…
Victoria Bruce Published: August 11, 2012 – 3:00AM AS POST-SANCTION Burma opens for business, Australian companies are eyeing investment opportunities in the country’s unexploited mineral reserves. The sector is receiving a gold rush of interest from Australian miners wanting to unlock the country’s rich mineral wealth. While the impoverished Read more…
Fri, May 25 2012 * Easing of sanctions opens gates to investments * Attractive opportunities in real estate, infrastructure, financials * But Myanmar still lacks legal framework to protect investors By Charmian Kok and Stephen Aldred SINGAPORE/HONG KONG, May 25 (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s Cube Capital and Marc Faber-backed Leopard Capital Read more…