Reuters in Beijing China should set firm targets to limit greenhouse gas emissions so they peak around 2030, a study by some of the nation’s top climate change policy advisers has proposed ahead of contentious talks on a new global warming pact. The call for “quantified targets” to cap greenhouse gas pollution marks a high-level [...]
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CLP To Fire Up Cleaner Generator By Year’s End
Joyce Ng, SCMP – Mar 17, 2009 CLP Power (SEHK: 0002) will fire up its first upgraded lower-emission generating unit at its Castle Peak coal-fired power plant by the end of the year. The upgrade is part of a programme aimed at meeting the company’s 2010 emission-reductions target. But the whole project, which requires upgrading [...]
Beijing To Help Pay For Green Cars
Peggy Sito and Reuters – Jan 28, 2009 Beijing will subsidise purchases of clean-energy vehicles in 13 mainland cities in a move to encourage carmakers to build environmentally friendly vehicles. The trial scheme would promote the use of electric, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles by public transport operators, taxi companies and postal and sanitary services in [...]
Turmoil Offers Opportunity To Promote Green Cars
Kandy Wong, SCMP – Updated on Jan 07, 2009 The central government will soon announce the rate cut for consumption tax, which is regarded as a move to further boost sales and entice consumers to buy “green” cars in a weak market. Beijing aims to transform the industry, with zero emissions as the goal in [...]
Stimulus Package Boosts Green Efforts
Matthias Voss and Matthew Bisley, SCMP – Updated on Jan 05, 2009 The 4 trillion yuan (HK$4.55 trillion) stimulus package announced last month by the central government gives impetus to energy efficiency development and opportunities on the mainland. The 2007 Energy Conservation Law came into force on April 1 last year against a backdrop of [...]
TRUenergy Puts On Hold A$2b Plan
Bloomberg in Sydney – Updated on Dec 12, 2008 TRUenergy, the Australian electricity and gas supplier owned by CLP Holdings, said it had A$2 billion (HK$10.25 billion) of proposed investments that hinged on the design of the nation’s emissions-trading system. The spending on gas-fired power plants would not proceed if the design of the carbon-trading [...]
Degrees of Comfort
SCMP – Updated on Dec 12, 2008 Of the government’s initiatives to get us to be more environmentally responsible, perhaps the most effective has been the one espousing that office air conditioners be set at 25.5 degrees Celsius. It is a number many people seem to be aware of, as a quick straw poll proved. [...]
Burning Issue For Beijing
Underground coal fires are blazing out of control on the mainland, contributing greatly to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions Tim Johnson – SCMP | Updated on Nov 17, 2008 The barren hillsides give a hint of the inferno underfoot. White smoke billows from cracks in the earth, venting a sulfurous rotten smell into the air. The [...]
Seven Power Plants To Be Fined For Not Using Sulphur Filters
SCMP | 15th Nov 2008 Seven power plants, including ones operated by China Datang Group, Shenzhen Energy Group, China Power (SEHK: 2380) Investment Group, China Guodian Group and China Huadian Group, were found by the Ministry of Environmental Protection to have failed to turn on their desulphurisation equipment in certain periods last year as required. [...]
Beijing Defends Energy Policy After Scathing Report
Agence France-Presse in Beijing | Updated on Oct 28, 2008 Beijing on Tuesday defended its energy policy a day after three influential green organisations criticised its dependence on coal. “The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development and exploration of clean energy,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters. “It has been making great [...]