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Start-up CM Xiageng Hydrogen Energy Technology, a green hydrogen equipment maker backed by the Fujian government and conglomerate China Mer­chants Group, plans to quadruple its output. It is rushing to [...]

The owners of Citybus have set their sights on supplying hydrogen vehicles to the Middle East after launching Hong Kong’s first zero-emission bus. Wisdom Motor, majority owned by private-equity firm [...]

Big listed companies in Hong Kong and on the mainland have underperformed their peers in Asia-Pacific when it comes to the credibility of their environmental targets and disclosure of greenhouse [...]

The global shipping industry may have put the cart before the horse as green fuel supplies have lagged the furious pace of worldwide fleet expansion of vessels capable of burning [...]

State-backed China National Nuclear Power (CNNP) has kicked off construction of the nation’s largest offshore solar farm, as part of efforts to boost low-carbon energy supply and decarbonise the economy. [...]

China’s cement manufacturers, which will have to invest in ­expensive carbon capture and storage (CCS) equipment when Beijing introduces emissions ­trading quotas next year, can draw on Europe’s experience to [...]

The International Chamber of Sustainable Development (ICSD), a Hong Kong-based professional training body, will expand its accredited environmental, social and governance (ESG) planner course to the Greater Bay Area in [...]

Hong Kong-based private equity firm Templewater has joined British oil giant BP in leading a US$111 million funding round for Hysata to help the Australian green hydrogen technology start-up expand [...]

China’s Ganfeng Lithium has clinched a US$342.7 million deal to raise its stake in one of the world’s largest lithium projects in Mali, West Africa, securing ­additional resources to feed [...]

CK Infrastructure Holdings (CKI), part of tycoon Li Ka-shing’s business empire, has bought a British renewable energy firm as it continues to snap up utility assets overseas with its HK$13 [...]

Financiers of nature-based ­projects that seek to reduce and capture carbon emissions while also enhancing developing nations’ resilience against climate change are focusing on ­investments that are viable even without [...]

EnerVenue, a rechargeable batteries start-up co-founded by Full Vision Capital, the family office of Hong Kong tycoon Peter Lee Ka-kit, aims to build multiple plants in the US and China [...]

PetroChina, the nation’s largest oil and gas producer, is on track to reach its goal of peak carbon emissions next year and is ­confident it can double the ­contribution of [...]

Hong Kong aims to be among the first jurisdictions worldwide to align local sustainability disclosures with benchmarks published by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). “We consider it essential to [...]

Hong Kong and China Gas (Towngas) has said it is under pressure to raise tariffs to keep up with rising costs and investments, after the city’s sole piped-gas ­supplier posted [...]

Since Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po’s declaration in his budget speech a year ago of the city’s ambitions of becoming a regional greentech hub and ­creating a new post-pandemic economic [...]

Hong Kong should open its environmental protection market further and introduce circular waste treatment models, according to China Everbright Environment Group, the world’s largest waste-to-energy project developer. The city was [...]

CLP Holdings, the larger of Hong Kong’s two power utilities, plans to increase its imports of nuclear power from the mainland as the electricity supplier seeks to achieve its greenhouse [...]

Hong Kong green-energy start-up H2 Solution, which makes ­hydrogen fuel-cell systems, is looking to set up its operations in the city’s science and technology park as a springboard into ­overseas [...]

China’s global dominance in the production of three key energy transition products – electric ­vehicles (EVs), batteries, and solar panels – will face more challenges this year from industry over­capacity, [...]

GRST, the Hong Kong green ­technology start-up that won Prince William’s Earthshot Prize, is in talks to deploy its eco-friendly batteries in a range of electrical applications before taking a [...]

At EcoPark, Hong Kong’s first recycling business park in the New Territories, New Life Plastics has been running the city’s largest food-grade plastics recycling ­facility with the aim of processing [...]

China is at heightened risk of missing its climate targets and suffering major economic losses unless it takes decisive actions to stop runaway coal power plant expansion and reform outdated [...]

Guoguang Shunneng (Shanghai) Energy Technology (GGSN), a mobile electric-vehicle (EV) charging start-up partly owned by New World Group, is in talks to set up research, product development and marketing ­facilities [...]

Hong Kong’s green financing expertise can help emerging markets in Asia-Pacific fill an enormous funding gap for tackling climate change, according to the regional head of International Finance Corporation (IFC). [...]

Investment products with ­strategies zeroing in on ­companies’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) ­performance should outshine in the long term, overshadowing the outflows in the near term ­triggered by high [...]

China’s dairy industry, the world’s fourth-largest, is fast embracing automation and innovation to become more efficient and sustainable, and food packaging and equipment giant Tetra Pak is helping drive this [...]

The European Union’s move to implement the world’s first tax on carbon-intensive imports from 2026 could badly hit Chinese steel and aluminium makers, according to Goldman Sachs. The 27-nation bloc [...]

Exporters of certain carbon-intensive products – including those in China – have six more months to set up systems to collect, calculate and report emissions data to help their European [...]

Mainland electric vehicle makers face a mounting burden from disclosures relating to ­carbon emissions and other ­sustainability and compliance issues in the European Union, their largest export market, according to [...]

Hong Kong will play host to a green and sustainable finance training event in June for hundreds of policymakers, regulators, and finance professionals from dozens of developing nations. The Beijing-based [...]

Shares of Ganfeng Lithium and Tianqi Lithium, two of the world’s largest producers of the metal that powers batteries for all kinds of products including electric ­vehicles, fell after warning [...]

A local business group promoting environmental sustainability has joined flagship airline Cathay Pacific Airways and 11 other ­partners to push for greater ­public-private collaboration to increase adoption of sustainable aviation [...]

The Hong Kong government will soon launch a subsidy scheme for start-ups with expertise in the collection, analysis and reporting of sustainability data as part of an effort to connect [...]

Britain-based BAR Technologies (BAR Tech) has partnered with state-backed China Merchants Group for manufacturing energy efficient equipment that will meet the fast-growing decarbonisation demands of China’s shipping sector. CM Energy [...]

China has issued its first set of proposed standards for recycling retired onshore wind turbines, laying the foundation for tackling supply-chain sustainability ­challenges arising from renewable energy generation. The proposed [...]

The city’s aim of becoming a green technology and finance centre can be realised if efforts are concentrated on supporting start-ups and leveraging the country’s expertise in crucial technologies, according [...]

Seven Hong Kong companies have joined more than 300 ­worldwide that are committed to making disclosures on nature-­related risks and opportunities, ­supporting a global initiative to reverse environmental ­degradation caused [...]