Education is fundamental and is the long-term solution to cultivate people's green living senses, Young-Woo Park, an official with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) told chinadaily.com.cn in an exclusive interview on Tuesday in Beijing.
Subsidies for new energy vehicles are likely to be expanded to the manufacturing and usage sectors as the government releases preferential fiscal and taxation policies, said Xu Changming, head of information resource development at the State Information Center during an interview with China Business News on Wednesday.
Danish biotech company Novozymes said on Wednesday that it is banking on the rapid growth of China's bioenergy industry to boost its portfolio in the country, the company's second-largest overseas market.
The Chinese government on Wednesday stressed the importance for the country to step up efforts to develop emerging industries of strategic importance.
China ranked as the most attractive country for renewable energy projects in a quarterly index compiled by the global accounting firm Ernst & Young.
China's top 100 retail companies were estimated to have cut 1.63 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2009 as their combined power consumption was 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours less than that in 2008.
Electric vehicles may soon hit China's roads, but automakers are worried that slow development of charging stations will hinder sales of the new energy vehicles.
A.T. Kearney fulfilled its 2007 pledge to become carbon neutral this year, and now wants to use its position as a global management consulting firm to promote carbon neutrality to its clients.
China is speeding up the industrialization of new energy vehicles and energy efficient automobiles as a way to offset pressure from booming auto capacity, which will hit 200 million by 2020, government officials said at the weekend.
Shanghai's new energy vehicle output to reach $4.4b
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China is drafting new policies and speeding up the implementation of existing policies on developing new energy vehicles, government officials said at the International Forum on Chinese Automobile Industry Development held in Tianjin over the weekend.
The output of new energy vehicles in Shanghai will reach 30 billion yuan ($4.41 billion) by 2012, municipal authorities said Sunday.
The Vancouver mayor and a delegation of representatives from 22 corporations in the Canadian city will bring a green message to China in an upcoming trade mission designed to promote and sell clean energy technology, mobility and infrastructure.