BEIJING: China, Japan and South Korea are making more consistent investments in clean energy and starting to outshine Europe as a global center of low carbon leadership, according to a new report released today by The Climate Institute and General Electric (GE).

Most previous methods of producing methanol from carbon dioxide have involved lots of electricity, high pressures and high temperatures, and used toxic chemicals or rare earth elements like cadmium or tellurium.

A new version of a probably renewable energy law has been drafted in the Polish Government.

230 megawatts (MW) of new solar energy capacity were installed by Austria in 2012. This more than doubled its total capacity, bringing it up to 415 MW.

The UK was likely the 5th-largest solar market in 2013, according to the latest quarterly report from NPD Solarbuzz. In fact, in the first quarter, the UK snatched up about 10% of the global market.

As scheduled, the organizing committee of the “1st energy-efficient building design competition” organized by the Ministry of Construction would hold an award ceremony on March 23rd.

On March, 26 in Hanoi, the Department of Science, Technology and Environment under the Ministry of Construction and the Energy Conservation Center of Ho Chi Minh City (ECC HCMC) co-organized the award ceremony of "the first energy-efficient architecture" competition.

Dong Nai with its many industrial parks consumes a large amount of power.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has projected that the country’s total power demand in the peak dry month of April would increase nearly 12 percent over the same period last year, exceeding 11 billion kWh.

Senior agriculture and environment officials from the six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries met in Xiengkhouang, Laos on April 2 to discuss environmentally sustainable agriculture and natural resource management in the region, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

A research vessel carrying German and Taiwanese scientists set sail for waters off the island's southwestern coast on Sunday in search of methane hydrate, a potentially vast new energy source.

Germany is often cited as the king in solar, but its reign may soon be over.

After Record 2012, World Wind Power Set to Top 300,000 Megawatts in 2013

The government has ratified a project named “supplying water to Mekong Delta with renewable energy” which is sponsored by the Danish Government with the aid given gratis of DKK 4 billion.

Phu Yen Education and Training Department has sent an official request to Education and Training Boards and local schools to carry out propaganda for power-savings in schools.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) issued Circular 9 explaining solutions for energy efficiency in cultivation and plant protection, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, irrigation and forestry.

Cambodia inaugurated a National Council on Green Growth (NCGG) and a General Secretariat for Green Growth (GSGG) at a ceremony on March 19.

VADODARA: Earth hour, a commitment to save the world from global warming and environmental degradation, was celebrated by NCC Group Baroda on March 23

MEXICO CITY: Global investment in clean energy climbed to a record $250 billion last year despite adverse worldwide economic conditions, the president of the International Solar Energy Society said in an interview in Mexico.

How sustainable it is, nobody knows, but Japan’s feed-in tariff is doing what it was meant to do: inspiring solar power installations.