Green industry development in China: An index based assessment from perspectives of both current performance and historical effort

WRI has launched a new microsite on #JustTransitions. It highlights initiatives by governments, communities and companies that provide lessons for how workers and communities can benefit from the transition to a zero-carbon economy.

Industries with an excess of waste heat can transform it into cold, providing for their and nearby industries process cooling energy demand. When a cluster of businesses cooperate to reduce waste and pollution, efficiently share resources and help to achieve sustainable development, they constitute an eco-industrial park. Learn more about district cooling in eco-industrial parks and some good practices around the world.

It Looks Like a Vespa, Rides Like a Vespa, but Doesn’t Smell Like a Vespa - An Irish mechanic in London has developed a kit to transform classic Italian scooters into clean-riding electric machines.

Climate action in Asia - a region that produces more than half of global emissions - is intensifying, and competition among rivals helps. There has been 57% increase in companies setting carbon-cutting targets or are in the process of getting targets approved, between 2019 and 2020.

An interesting article that questions whether the Asian corporates' targets realistic, ambitious or greenwash.

Yep, ships are around 20x more efficient than trucks in shipping, and why scrap metal prices are going up

The case of decentralised piping water companies: resilience of safe drinking water models during COVID-19 times (with examples from Ethiopia and Cambodia)