From NewsReleaseWire.com: Pacific countries are facing huge environmental challenges caused by rapid urbanization, fast economic growth, and inadequate infrastructure, World Bank experts said in two recent reports released ahead of Earth Day 2005. “East Asia’s economy is growing more quickly than any other region, but improvements in human welfare are being offset by serious environmental […]
Read MoreFrom News24.com: Tibetan mountaineers and a team of volunteers have begun a six-week clean up of Mount Everest, where tons of rubbish has been dumped by expeditions, state media said Monday. The team is scaling the world’s highest peak from the Chinese side and will spend until World Environment Day in early June collecting garbage, […]
Read MoreFrom the Triple Pundit: According to the World Wildlife Fund, most Chinese companies are more environmentally aware than expected. This is great news given the typically gloomy outlook for China’s pollution problems, and indeed the world’s. The survey also showed that 22 per cent of respondents are implementing tougher environment standards than legally required, with […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: China saw the All China Environment Federation, a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the most extensive variety of members designed to protect the environment, founded here on Friday. The federation, which includes government officials, other environmentalist social organizations, enterprises and ecologists,is expected to serve as a bridge linking the public and the government […]
Read MoreFrom the Green Car Congress: At the Auto Shanghai 2005 show, DaimlerChrysler is emphasizing its entire range of approaches to sustainable mobility for Asia as a whole, and China in particular. Making their Asian debuts at the show are the Mercedes-Benz S-Class Hybrid (earlier post) and a cutaway model of the fuel-cell version of the […]
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