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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 (Bernama) — Malaysia, as a major producer of palm oil in the world, should focus on the energy efficiency sector as it has huge potential, said Camco Southeast Asia managing director, Kent Carter.
He said there is great potential for the development of Renewable Energy (RE) in Malaysia because there is plentiful supply of feedstock for RE projects.
“There are also many professional developers who can contribute to the RE development. “It is estimated that the RE which comes from biomass and other energy efficiency projects, can contribute US$139 billion from 2010-2030.
Continue reading MALAYSIA SHOULD FOCUS ON ENERGY EFFIENCY SECTOR, SAYS CAMCO MD
Abu Dhabi’s most innovative project is the creation of a brand new city. Not just any city, either. This one is billed as the world’s first carbon-neutral, zero-waste city, powered entirely by renewable energy.
The estimated $22 billion plan for Masdar City was hatched in 2006. Construction is under way, with the first residents — university students — expected to move in by the end of the year.
Continue reading The greenest city of all?
ConocoPhillips has agreed to pay $588,000 in compensation for environmental damage caused by the Dalco Passage oil spill, which fouled 21 miles of South Sound beaches in October 2004.
Under a proposed settlement agreement filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, ConocoPhillips would pay for three environmental rehabilitation projects on Vashon and Maury islands, where most of the spill damage occurred.
Continue reading ConocoPhillips agrees to pay for ’04 oil spill
 Mexico City, shown Feb. 7, 2007, is closing a huge landfill site to ease smog. Poor air quality is also a problem for Toronto in summer, shown May 27, 2005. Once known as a smog-choked place to avoid, Mexico City has seen its air quality improve drastically since the early ’90s.
But the air still poses a threat to those who live and work there.
Now, the most extensive municipal air quality measure ever undertaken, with a price tag of $6 billion (U.S.), promises to make Mexico City the model of environmental rehabilitation.
Continue reading Mexico City’s lofty goal helps clear the air
An international gathering of 350 economists will discuss climate change and government water trade policies at an international conference in Adelaide today.
Organisers say the economists at the conference of the Australia Agricultural and Resource Economics Society .. will also talk about the rise of corporate farming and landscape management.
Other issues are the global economic development and reports on food safety intellectual property issues in agricultural research and water quality in the Great Barrier Reef.
Source: Big Pond News
GUANGZHOU: Authorities in this southern city are facing a tough job to ensure better air quality during the upcoming Asian Games, as the event comes at a time of year that has been “relatively bad” for air quality in the city’s history.
Sources with the Guangdong provincial environmental protection department said that Guangzhou, the provincial capital city, reported “bad air quality” in October and November in the past four consecutive years.
The 16th Asian Games, the world’s second largest sports event, will be held in this city on Nov 12 to 27 this year.
Continue reading Cleaner air for Asian Games
 City of London covered in smog Londoners are having up to 10 years wiped off their lives by poor air quality, a leading academic warned today.
Professor Frank Kelly, an environmental health expert from King’s College, London, stressed that an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people in the capital were dying early each year due to pollution.
“In the worst cases, they could be dying up to 10 years early,” he said.
Continue reading Pollution is ‘taking 10 years off the lives of Londoners’
There is need to evolve time-bound strategies to resolve challenges like climate change, stagnating agriculture yields, decreasing farm lands, water pollution and degradation of environment, Jammu and Kashmir Governor N.N. Vohra said here Sunday.
“We are facing many environmental challenges. Rapidly receding arctic sea ice and snow cover is causing a damage of nearly USD 370 billion every year and it would reach USD 2.4 to 24 trillion by 2050 in terms of damages incurred by various sectors like agriculture and real estate,” he said.
Continue reading Corrective actions should be taken to save environment
?In an effort to improve air quality and protect people with asthma and other respiratory disorders, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Jan. 25 that it will begin to limit nitrogen oxide, a chemical responsible for smog formation.
In general, any standards that impose limits on air pollution levels are beneficial for citizens, especially given that the EPA hasn’t updated its standards since 1971. The new proposed limit would be 100 parts per billion.
As reported in a Jan. 25 Chicago Tribune article, the EPA measured Chicago’s nitrogen oxide content at 116 parts per billion. Other notorious cities such as San Diego and Los Angeles averaged at 87 and 84 parts per billion, respectively.
Continue reading Tougher smog standards needed
’Air Quality Atlas’ is in the offing in Karnataka to generate information on pollution status and locate pollution hotspots, State Ecology and Environment Department Secretary Kanwerpal said today.
He said that the department said the idea was to identify pollution hotspots in the state so that various departments, under State Implementation Plan, could ‘act upon’ and initiate ‘interventions’ to reduce pollution levels.
Speaking at a Workshop on ‘Urban Air Pollution Forecasting, Monitoring and Implementation’ here he said the venture was taken up with State Pollution Control Board.
Continue reading ‘Air Quality Atlas’ in the offing in Karnataka
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