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The world’s top carmakers are holding us back on climate action–by violating CO2 regulations in certain markets
The climate crisis is making forests burn, temperatures soar, storms rage and floods engulf homes at a faster and harder rate than ever before. Never has it been more urgent to decarbonise than it is today. While countless efforts are being made to save our climate, the transportation sector - who is responsible for reducing…
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Korea and Japan carmakers bet heavily on hydrogen vehicles to achieve carbon neutrality. Is it the right solution?
Korean and Japanese car companies are relying heavily on hydrogen vehicles, also known as fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs). However, various recent studies showed that FCEVs are a dangerous mistake that could deter us from decarbonizing in time to save our climate, due to how hydrogen is generated and the energy inefficiency of fuel cell…
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5 ways the climate crisis will change Asia
The scenes are now all too common. Millions forced to flee their homes as flash floods create rivers that surge along city streets in Japan; the vulnerable rushed to the…
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For China’s post-COVID stimulus, big gaps in how much each province got, how they spent it: data
A province-by-province analysis of China’s post-COVID economic stimulus done by Greenpeace East Asia shows a widening split between provinces leading in the post-Covid green recovery and those lagging behind, especially coal-dependent provinces, with disparities in the amount of fiscal stimulus package and how they spent aid money.
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Samsung Electronics roadmap to 100% renewable energy
This report set out to identify key updates since 2018 relating to; Samsung’s growth and impact; growth and electricity use trend of the ICT sector including climate impacts; corporate uptake…
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Electricity consumption from China’s digital sector on track to increase 289% by 2035: Greenpeace
Electricity consumption from data centers and 5G base stations in China is on track to increase by an estimated 289% between 2020 and 2035, new research shows.
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Let’s Talk about Climate Change: Prentice Koo explains why Chernobyl still matters
Let’s travel back a decade ago to April 2011. Prentice Koo (aka Muk) was Greenpeace Hong Kong’s senior campaigner back then, overseeing the Climate and Energy project. It was also in that year which he visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
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Tencent beats out Alibaba, Baidu in Greenpeace’s China tech industry ranking
BEIJING, 21 April, 2021 – Tencent took the top spot among cloud providers in Greenpeace East Asia’s latest clean energy scorecard for China’s tech sector, beating out Alibaba, which fell…
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When the climate crisis strikes home
Covid-19 is not the only crisis we had to deal with this past winter. Huge areas of the northern hemisphere were in the grip of a brutal winter that left people without electricity, cars piled up, and homes snowed in. Texas went into an unprecedented deep freeze while record snowfalls in Japan left more than…
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Sandstorm spreads across East Asia, bringing orange skies and choking air pollution
On the morning of March 15, residents of Beijing awoke to their city shrouded in a suffocating orange haze, as winds carried a massive sandstorm thousands of kilometers from Mongolia.…
