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Low Carbon Energy Forum Held In Hong Kong

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:33:52 +0000

Hong Kong's Energy Advisory Committee held its Forum on Low Carbon Energy and Climate Change last week to discuss the role of energy policy and measures in combating climate change. There were reportedly two discussion sessions at the forum. The first session examined the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions through enhancing building energy efficiency, as [...]

China Mobile Nets 53 Suppliers In Green Action Plan

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:30:11 +0000

China Mobile Limited, the country's largest telecom operator, has announced that it has signed strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding on a "Green Action Plan" with 53 major suppliers around the world, driving the industry towards energy conservation and emission reduction. In 2007, China Mobile launched its "Green Action Plan", focusing on energy-saving, land and materials, [...]

China's Crystal Group Converts To Biomass And Reduces Carbon Emissions

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:30:43 +0000

Honeywell Building Solutions has announced that it has signed an energy savings performance contract with Dongguan Crystal Textile to help the Chinese company reduce the energy consumed in its manufacturing process. Under the agreement, Honeywell will help Crystal convert its boilers from coal to an environmentally-friendlier biomass feedstock. The company's existing air compressor system will [...]

World's Largest Hydropower Station CDM Project Unveiled In Gansu

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:14:29 +0000

The Bingling Hydropower Clean Development Mechanism project, which is said to be the largest of its kind in the world, has been unveiled in Gansu. According to Li Ningping, president of BHCDM, BHCDM has a total installed capacity of 240 MW and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 760,000 tons of carbon dioxide [...]

ExxonMobil Selects Shanghai For New Technology Center

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:30:54 +0000

ExxonMobil Chemical Company says the selection of Shanghai as the site for its new technology center reflects the importance of China in the business development and growth plans for ExxonMobil Chemical Company. The technology center that will provide product applications support for its growing business in the Chinese and Asian markets is expected to be [...]

US-China Collaboration On Climate Change Pushed By American Organizations

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:14:29 +0000

The world is hoping that a new United States president will help overturn some of the previous Bush administration environmental policies, and a report released by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change is aimed at pushing the Obama administration towards interaction with ... Read More>>

ADB Initiative To Make Buildings Energy-Efficient

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:31:43 +0000

The Asian Development Bank is extending CNY800 million in a partial credit guarantee program that will support private sector-led energy efficiency projects in China.

Under the pilot program, ADB is partnering with Johnson Controls, a private energy management company, and financial institutions such as Standard Chartered China to retrofit existing buildings ... Read More>>

First Chinese Emission Exchange Opens In Tianjin

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:32:04 +0000

China's first national emission trading marketplace, the Tianjin Emissions Exchange, unveiled to the public 50 days after the Beijing Environment Exchange and the Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange were set up.

Chicago Climate Exchange, North America's only, and the world's first, global marketplace for integrating voluntary legally binding emissions reductions with ... Read More>>

EPA Looks At Ways Of Recovering Coalbed Methane In China

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:31:00 +0000

Proposed coalbed methane recovery programs in China could reduce emissions by the equivalent of up to 1.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide a year — the annual emissions of up to 330,000 passenger vehicles.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has committed more than USD1 million to assess the viability of ... Read More>>

First Environment Exchange Set Up In Beijing

GreenChinaTech.com Editor — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:30:01 +0000

The Beijing Environment Exchange was set up in Beijing on August 5, 2008, — the first environmental rights trading institution in China.

Carbon emission quotas will be sold to the public via this platform.

Business areas of the exchange will cover the trading of environmental technologies, energy conservation indicators, rights and interests ... Read More>>