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The British James Dyson Foundation presented the first Sustainability Award to Carvey Ehren Maigue, an electrical engineering student in the Philippines. He was awarded for creating new material from recycled crop waste that has the ability to transform ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun into electrical energy. The technology could soon be turning the windows and walls of buildings into a rich new source of electricity.
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More than 20 years ago, when two Chiang Rai-based environmentalists, Niwat Roikaew and Somkiat Kuenwongsa, learned that the Chinese government were blasting rapids in the upper Mekong River from Yunnan to Myanmar and Laos to clear the way for large commercial vessels, they started worrying.
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Vietnam, a typical destination for South Korean gasoline, could look towards Southeast Asia as a gasoline supply source in 2021 as Vietnam adjusts its import tax structure, said market participants.
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The Lao government and the Sanakham hydropower project developer have been urged to widen the impact assessment of the project and propose additional measures to mitigate potential adverse impacts from the 684-megawatt dam.
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The Thai concerns about the Sanakham dam come amid growing recognition of the dire state of the Mekong.
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SINGAPORE – Going green could bring up to US$1 trillion (S$1.35 trillion) in annual economic benefits to South-east Asian economies by 2030, a report by global management consulting firm Bain and Company said on Thursday (Nov 26).
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ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE) is an intergovernmental organisation within ASEAN structure that represents the 10 ASEAN Member States’ (AMS) interests in the energy sector.
