http://www.igsd.org/ Washington, DC, February 19, 2010 Increasing the reflectivity or “albedo” of roofs and pavements in urban areas could offset greenhouse gas emissions by a significant amount, according to a paper published last month in Environmental Research Letters. The research performed by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows [...]
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Can China Clean Up Its Act?
BusinessWeek by Adam Aston – May 14, 2009 Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_21/b4132040805185.htm?chan=magazine+channel_in+depth Beijing has big plans to curb pollution and start a cleantech industry. But the global recession and looming trade frictions will test its resolve China’s unprecedented growth in recent years has come at a terrible price. Two-thirds of its rivers and lakes are too polluted [...]
Tax Break Set For Electric Vehicles
February 25, 2009 – Environment News.gov.hk The First Registration Tax exemption for electric vehicles will be extended five more years to promote their use. The exemption is due to expire March 31, but will be extended five years instead of three years as in the past. In his 2009-10 Budget today Financial Secretary John Tsang [...]
Tenants Won’t Pay For Green Office
Olga Wong, SCMP – Feb 20, 2009 More than half of grade A office tenants are not willing to lease green space at higher rents despite the fact that such features save on work costs, a survey has found. The survey also found 40 per cent of tenants would pay higher rents if the increase [...]
Those Who Dare May Gain
David Chan, SCMP – Updated on Jan 21, 2009 Investment opportunities remain in the mainland property market despite the effects of the global financial crisis, and one emerging asset class that may reward investors are “green” buildings. Part of the 4 billion yuan (HK$4.54 billion) stimulus package unveiled recently was earmarked for the development of [...]
Kwai Chung College Gives Green Light To Solar Power
Colleen Lee, SCMP – Jan 17, 2009 A secondary school in Kwai Chung is to go green and use solar energy to power lighting on two of its floors from April. Wong Shiu-hung, principal of the Kwai Chung Methodist College, said he expected the initiative to cut about 30 per cent of the school’s electricity [...]
Substation Uses 15pc Less Power With Roof Garden, Sun And Wind
Ng Yuk-hang, SCMP – Updated on Dec 26, 2008 Two windmills on the roof of a grey building in Marsh Road, Causeway Bay, might not mean much to the casual observer but they are clues to the unique character of what Hongkong Electric calls the “first green substation in Hong Kong”. The Marsh Road substation, [...]
On Other Matters …
SCMP – Updated on Dec 17, 2008 I refer to the letter by E. Delannoy (Talkback, December 9), criticising the MTR Corporation’s strategy on saving energy. He asked why it was “shutting down a number of escalators in stations at certain hours”, but still keeping the air conditioning at cold temperatures inside its carriages [from [...]
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. [...]
Energy Law Shows Way To Combat Global Warming
David Chan – SCMP | Updated on Nov 05, 2008 On October 1, National Day, an important piece of legislation known as the Civil Energy Act came into effect. The law has six chapters and 45 articles detailing the country’s vision of how to deal with the effect of global warming. There are chapters on [...]