Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway [601816:CH] published its first ESG report for FY20 on November 15, as reported by XinhuaNet on the same day. It is the first time for the company to disclose its ESG policies and performances, strictly following the nationally-recognized standards and the...
Singapore state-owned investor Temasek on November 15 launched a new company called the Asia Sustainable Food Platform, aiming to commercialize alternative protein technologies and popularize sustainable food across Asia, as reported by The Strait Times on the same day. Specifically, the new platform will provide...
The South Korean government has announced a plan to introduce hydrogen and ammonia in the fuel mix for thermal power generation, as reported by the Korea Herald on November 16. The country’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy has also established a council to lead...
Hyundai Motor Group’s construction subsidiary, Hyundai Engineering, is bidding for a South Korean waste treatment company owned by KG Group, namely KG Eco Technology Services (KG ETS), as reported by the Korea Economic Daily on November 16, citing people familiar with the matter. Other bidders...
South Korean steelmaking giant POSCO [PKX:US] announced on November 15 in a regular board meeting that the company will ramp up its production of non-grain-oriented electric steel sheet metal by four times, an important material for traction motors of electric vehicles (EV), as reported by...
Indonesia has formed a new regulation, called the Economic Value of Carbon, to establish a carbon trading market mechanism, as reported by Reuters on November 15. The country’s environment ministry affirmed it, though the government has yet made the new regulation public. The carbon trading...
Japanese automaker Toyota [7203:JP] claimed to collaborate with four domestic peers on the development of alternative green fuels for traditional cars with internal combustion engines, as reported by Reuters on November 13. The four other automobile companies are Mazda Motor [7261:JP], Subaru [7270:JP], Yamaha Motor...
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) launched its Net-Zero Standard for Corporates on October 28, right ahead of the UN COP26 climate conference commencing in Glasgow, the UK. The SBTi Standard is the first global certificate for corporates with net-zero targets and ambitions to establish...
Singapore’s financial watchdog, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), is planning to deal with greenwashing issues through regulations and technologies, as reported by Bloomberg on November 7. Banks in Singapore will have to conduct stress tests that included climate-related scenarios from 2022 while making required...
Australian iron ore mining company Fortescue Metals Group [FMG:AU] and US-based Universal Hydrogen, a company focusing on aviation decarbonization, have inked a preliminary agreement on green hydrogen supplies for the aviation industry, as reported by Reuters on November 10. According to the agreement, Fortescue will...
Independent power producer (IPP) Vector Green Energy and its US-based peer Evergreen Power signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to collaborate on greenfield development of about 300 megawatts (MW) of wind power projects in India, as reported by Economic Times on November 8. Prior to...
International mining company BHP [BHP:US] has inked a deal to sell its 80% stake in a metallurgical coal joint venture (JV) with Japan’s Mitsui [8031:JP] to Australian coal company Stanmore Resources [SMR:AU] for at most USD1.35bn, as reported by Reuters on November 8. Mitsui will...
China’s central bank PBoC launched a new monetary policy tool to incentivize lending for carbon emission reduction activities on November 8, as reported by Caixin on November 9. The new policy tool mandated that interest rates for carbon emission reduction loans should be close to...
South Korean refiner Hyundai Oilbank and Denmark’s emission reduction technology developer Haldor Topsoe signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on November 4 to join efforts on next-generation eco-friendly synthetic fuel development, as reported by Korea Economic Daily on November 5. The two companies will collaborate...
An Indonesian carbon capture and storage (CCS) project undertaken by Indonesian state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina and US energy giant ExxonMobil [XOM:US] is expected to cost USD500m, as reported by Reuters on November 8. Pertamina and ExxonMobil signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on...
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