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News / Policy & Finance

HK tycoon Li to buy Northumbrian Water for $3.9 billion

...t expect the same sort of uptick to its share price that we saw with that particular deal." Investec analyst Angelos Anastasiou said UK water companies, like electricity distribution networks recently...

2 Aug 2011

HK tycoon Li to buy Northumbrian Water for $3.9 billion

News / Transport

Green business practices a new fad?

...tch to such fuel that contains a maximum of one per cent sulphur when it is closer to the port of Singapore. So far, 98.7 per cent of its vessels have made the switch. But sustainability is key to ret...

27 Dec 2011

Green business practices a new fad?

News / Energy

Analysis: Energy policy chaos threatens Japan's economy

...ts and their population that restarts would be safe. The government last month ordered stress tests on all of the reactors to check their ability to withstand extreme shocks to allay safety fears. The...

4 Aug 2011

Analysis: Energy policy chaos threatens Japan's economy

News / Carbon & Climate

Grazing and farming land taken over to offset carbon

...tares across three states - almost half the 40,000 hectares under carbon forestry nationally - did not set out to own land and only bought when it had offset contracts to honour. ''We don't prospect, ...

1 Aug 2011

Grazing and farming land taken over to offset carbon

News / Carbon & Climate

Beware climate change risk from aircon, fridge gases: U.N.

...t a year, threatening to undo the climate benefits of the Montreal Protocol. "If HFC emissions continue to increase, they are likely to have a noticeable influence on the climate system," said the rep...

21 Nov 2011

Beware climate change risk from aircon, fridge gases: U.N.

News / Carbon & Climate

Extreme heat hurts wheat yields as world warms: study

...t on the time for the plant to fill the grain head. "What's new here is better understanding of one particular mechanism that causes heat to hurt yields," Lobell told Reuters in an email. He said that...

29 Jan 2012

Extreme heat hurts wheat yields as world warms: study

News / Water

Future of seawater desalination studied

...the process is still more energy intensive than conventional technologies for the treatment of freshwater, the researchers said. "However, these traditional sources aren't going to be able to meet the...

4 Aug 2011

Future of seawater desalination studied

News / Green Buildings

Green buildings not an in-thing

...tion of India (Credai), Odisha chapter. Credai in association with TERI at the national level has taken up an initiative to create awareness among its members about the concept, Tripathy said. The dev...

25 Dec 2011

Green buildings not an in-thing

News / Policy & Finance

China urges EU to rethink carbon tax

...the EU to impose the tax on routes to or from Europe next year. The system will inevitably increase the price of air tickets for international flights, a senior official with the China Air Transport A...

23 Dec 2011

China urges EU to rethink carbon tax

News / Carbon & Climate

Tropical peat forests in trouble

...the deforestation taking place in Southeast Asian peatlands, I must say that I was still surprised to see how little peat swamp forest is left," Miettinen writes in an e-mail. As unique habitat for an...

29 Apr 2011

Tropical peat forests in trouble

News / Corporate Responsibility

Solar panels power profit in Bangladesh

...the first barrier was high up on the cost of the solar system. We've overcome that problem by introducing micro-credit tools. The people, when they buy a solar home system they don't have to pay all t...

12 Apr 2011

Solar panels power profit in Bangladesh

News / Carbon & Climate

Price carbon and spread the load, says climate chief

...that Australian industry recognises that this is a key issue and that they need to act. I get the sense that the willingness to act is out there providing that concerns about international competitive...

2 Mar 2011

Price carbon and spread the load, says climate chief

News / Policy & Finance

Last-minute fine-tuning as carbon price vote nears

...ted with the carbon price, for a $300 million package to help the steel industry. The opposition is against the initiative, but the measure is likely to get through eventually with the reluctant suppo...

10 Oct 2011

Last-minute fine-tuning as carbon price vote nears

News / Food & Agriculture

Experts argue over adopting biotechnology in farming

...til said they trust the technology but doubt the management. He said with the kind of administration we have, we could not afford to take risks and thus should not be experimenting with technology who...

30 Aug 2011

Experts argue over adopting biotechnology in farming

News / Energy

Japan PM Naoto Kan brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima

...Two. The death toll by the end of the year was estimated at about 140,000 out of the total 350,000 that lived there at the time. The United States dropped a second atomic bomb on the southern city of ...

6 Aug 2011

Japan PM Naoto Kan brings his nuclear-free vision to Hiroshima

News / Manufacturing

Sustainable packaging's new definition emphasizes lifecycle impacts

...tainable packaging." Originally released in late 2005, the definition was updated for the first time this month, with the SPC putting more emphasis on the impacts of packaging throughout its entire li...

30 Aug 2011

Sustainable packaging's new definition emphasizes lifecycle impacts

News / Energy

Nanopac sees transforming industry with new solar cells

...that this would be more cost-effective than solar farms as there wouldn't be land costs involved. He illustrated that if Petronas Twin Towers used the third generation panels on one of its towers, it ...

20 Dec 2011

Nanopac sees transforming industry with new solar cells

News / Food & Agriculture

Urbanisation can't come at expense of agriculture

...tural land to non-agricultural use must leave at least 3.8 million hectares for rice cultivation by 2015, no matter what, to ensure national food security," he said. Total land under rice cultivation ...

29 Aug 2011

Urbanisation can't come at expense of agriculture

News / Water

What is the long-term plan for Perth's water supply?

...tion. With the doubling of the Binningup plant output, the Water Corporation expects about 30 per cent of Perth's water to be supplied by desalination. In announcing the plant extension, Mr Barnett an...

4 Aug 2011

What is the long-term plan for Perth's water supply?

News / Carbon & Climate

NGOs: Residents should set off fewer fireworks

...technics and instead use it to buy the city a PM 2.5 detector - a device that measures the amount of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micrograms that is in the air. Ma Jun, director of the Institut...

21 Jan 2012

NGOs: Residents should set off fewer fireworks