Green Building China 2009

November 3, 2009

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This News Report is from the organizer of Green Building China 2009.

New Highlight of environment conservation – Green Building China 2009

In the continuously evolving global contraction market, Asia has been proved to be the hot area with the most rapid development. In a year, it is expected that China, with an annual increase of over 9%, will come to the leadership in the construction industry. On the other hand, on the basis of energy-saving building, as the upgrade and development, green building seems to fit much more into the economic and social progress and to meet the demands of livelihood better.

Developing green building is an extremely important measurement of adapting China’s strategy to the global economic transformation and a curtail composition of the strategy to establish an innovative country, which makes green building an outstanding strategic position. China’s per capita natural resources seems at out elbows. Many existing buildings have a serious problem of resource and energy waste in the process of construction and use. Read more

China Sustainable Building Summit 2009

June 29, 2009

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July 1, 2009

With support from World Green Building Council, UNEP SBCI and Purdue University, We IGVision will hold the China Sustainable Building Summit 2009 on June 29th to July 1st in Shanghai China, together with the Sustainable Building Expo during the same period. Overall we expect more than 300 high profile participants from property developers financiers, architects, designers, contractors, engineers, as well as building sustainability solution providers including technology and products vendors. Read more

China’s Environmental Ministry Lacks Bite

This article first appeared in Greenpeace China.

Beijing, China – China’s environmental ministry turned one year old on the weekend. Greenpeace China takes a look at how this youngster has fared at dealing with China’s biggest crisis – its environmental nightmare.

It sounds unbelievable considering the giant environmental problems facing China but until March last year there was no ministry dedicated to environmental governance.

According to its website the MEP’s mission is to “prevent and control environmental pollution, protect nature and ecology, supervise nuclear safety, safeguard public health and environmental safety, and promote the harmony between man and nature.”

So one year on, what do we think? Read more

2009 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum and Exhibition

April 2, 2009

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April 4, 2009

2009 Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (2009MIECF)

Venue: The Venetian Macao – Resort – Hotel

Rising to the global drive for environmental sustainability, this government-led event spearheads and promotes greater local and international green co-operation in environment, business and connection. Be part of this GLOBAL GREEN GATHERING – CELEBRATE THE EARTH.

Visit www.macaomiecf.com.

New Eco-China Website Launched

Eco-China (生态中国网) is a new website launched last week by the Working Committee of Eco-China (生态中国工作委员会), which comprises the National Green Committee (全国绿化委员会), State Forestry Administration (国家林业局) and China Green Foundation (中国绿化基金会).

The website’s mission is to promote an eco-conscious culture and push for green development in China. The site is a goldmine of green tips and information, including water and soil management, nature conservation, green living, ecotourism, green technologies, climate change and energy management.

Visit the website (in Chinese) at http://www.eco.gov.cn/ or go to this Google translated site in English.

Image source: Screenshot from Eco-China

China Green Business Summit 2009

May 13, 2009

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May 15, 2009

China Green Business Summit 2009 – Driving China’s Green Revolution through Leading CDM and Water Business

JW Marriott Beijing (May 13th – 15th, 2009) will welcome the opening of the China Green Business Summit 2009, expectedly a grand gathering of 300+ senior level executives from global green business fraternity in China and elsewhere around the world.

Delegates from all sectors of the green industry, including socially responsible companies (power generation, energy & utilities, chemical, iron & steel, cement, coal); water operators; water investment companies; wastewater treatment companies; CDM project developers; CDM potential project owners; green technology/equipment providers; capital owners, lawyers etc are attending and the swell of interest in this meaningful event has been remarkable!

For more information, please contact:

Ms. Anita MENG, Marketing Manager

Tel: (8621) 6875 8108

Fax: (8621) 6875 8750

Email: anitam@cfeci.com

Website: http://www.cfeci.com/cgbs2009

(AsiaIsGreen is a Media Partner of China Green Business Summit 2009)

China’s Dead Lakes

This article first appeared in Greenpeace China.

Beijing, China – In the summer of 2007 a thick toxic blanket of blue-green algae covered Tai Lake (Taihu) in Jiangsu province. The government earmarked billions of renminbi to clean it up but next year the same thing happened again. What is going wrong?

The problem is the intense amounts of chemical fertilisers in use.

These leak into the lake and are one of the main causes of poisonous algal blooms.

Unless farmers start using less chemical fertilisers and start practicing eco-agriculture China’s lakes and rivers will continue to be poisoned.

Year after year. Read more

China to Hold Firm on Climate Change Policy Position

(This article is contributed by our guest writer, Julian Wong, and was first published in The Green Leap Forward.)

China releases comprehensive white paper on its climate change policy ahead of key international meetings.

Ahead of the high level technology transfer summit in Beijing next week; next December’s 14th Conference of Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland, during which a general framework for a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012, will be hashed out; and of course, Halloween, the State Council of the central government has released a white paper on climate change policy titled “Comprehensive Plan on Climate Change.” This white paper also comes on the heels of China’s submission of a viewpoint paper to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action of the UNFCCC on September 28.

While the 11,000 word white paper reads like a kitchen-sink of domestic policies that may seem to ring hollow given the institutional limitations that China observers have come to be so familiar with, the document does provide a good summary of the specific policy programs that China has enacted so far and of future policies that we can expect. Above everything else, the timing of the release of this document is highly strategic, ahead of the above mentioned meetings, as the white paper also states in no uncertain terms various policy positions that seem to have the north and the south heading towards climate deadlock. Read more

Asia Environmental News: 11 Nov 08

• China pays high environmental and social price for reliance on coal (Guardian) – The True Cost of Coal, a new report published by Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund and The Energy Foundation, says that the social and environmental impacts of using coal cost China an additional 1.7 trillion yuan.
• New deal to rescue Borneo orangutans in Malaysia (Yahoo) – The Malaysian-based LEAP Conservancy group is planning to buy 222 acres of tropical jungle land on Borneo island from palm oil operators, and turn it into a forest sanctuary to protect Borneo’s orangutans, pygmy elephants and other endangered wildlife.
• Thailand commissions nuclear power plant study (Today) – The Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand is conducting a feasibility study for Thailand’s first nuclear power plant.
• Marina Barrage: First city reservoir opens (Straits Times via Wildsingapore) – Singapore opens its new Marina Barrage to create the 15th reservoir, and to increase water supply and control flooding.
• Singapore could draw more green energy projects (Business Times via Wildsingapore) – Singapore is looking to attract more mega investments to develop new alternative energy ideas and technologies.

Beijing Energy and Environment Exhibition 2008 Review

(This article is contributed by our guest writer, Julian Wong, and was first published in The Green Leap Forward.)

This is the 50th post for The Green Leap Forward! To celebrate, we visited the 2008 China (Beijing) International Energy Saving and Environmental Protection Exhibition held at the Beijing Exhibition Center this past weekend (Oct 17 through 20).

The first thing that strikes the visitor is the Cathedral-like grandeur of the Beijing Exhibition Center. It was opened in 1954 “with the late Premier Zhou En-Lai cutting the red ribbon and Chairman Mao Tse-Tung contributing poetic thoughts.” It doesn’t look like it is LEED-certified, but being more than half a century old, visitors could take heart in the fact that the building’s carbon debt has probably been paid off a while ago. Read more

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