July 11, 2012
Having already announced plans for large-scale solar farms at 10 locations in Japan, the Softbank Corp. group is considering doubling the number over the next two to three years, a company executive said.
July 10, 2012
Asahi Glass Co. has developed new easy-to-install glass for office buildings that will help reduce energy consumption.
July 10, 2012
If the city feels hotter to you in the summer, you're right.
June 26, 2012
KOBE--Even the vessels shipping Japanese cars around the world are now becoming hybrids.
June 24, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--It was hard to find a happy soul at the end of the Rio+20 environmental summit.
June 23, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Global leaders were wrapping up a U.N. development summit on June 22 with little to show but a lackluster agreement, leaving many attendees convinced that individuals and companies, rather than governments, must lead efforts to improve the environment.
June 23, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Global leaders on June 22 wrap up a United Nations development summit with little to show but a lackluster agreement, as critics scorned governments for showing no urgency to tackle climate change as well as food and water scarcity.
June 23, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--A U.N. development summit ended on June 22 with an agreement that put off the implementation of many proposals on protecting the world's natural resources from climate change and globalization, leaving many attendees asking the question, "What next?"
June 22, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--Despite shrinking budgets for official development assistance, Japan has started a new form of foreign aid that includes teaming up with a country it once helped, which it dubs "triangular cooperation."
June 21, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Corporate and government accounting will likely reflect environmental profit and loss within a decade, thanks partly to progress made this week at a U.N. conference in Rio de Janeiro, backers of the plan told Reuters on June 21.
June 21, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The throngs streaming into Rio for a sustainable development conference may be dreaming of white-sand beaches and clear, blue waters, but what they are first likely to notice as they leave the airport is not the salty tang of ocean in the breeze, but the stench of raw sewage.
June 21, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--Japan plans to dispatch 10,000 “green cooperation volunteers,” consisting mainly of environmental specialists, to developing countries and provide $6 billion (480 billion yen) in official development assistance for environmental and anti-disaster measures.
June 21, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--The main obstacles to creating global green economy are the lack of political will, the fear of alienating voters with rising costs and the absence of a global price on carbon, economists and scientists said at a U.N. environment summit on June 20.
June 21, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff welcomed world leaders to a rainy Rio de Janeiro on June 20 under a cloud of criticism that a three-day summit is falling far short of its promise to establish clear goals for sustainable development.
June 20, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--As diplomats from more than 190 countries were gathering for a key U.N. development conference here, private citizens groups and indigenous people were making sure their voices won't be drowned out.
June 20, 2012
For a few months last summer, Japan looked with unclouded eyes at the energy crisis it faces and actually did something about it, according to Indian environmental economist Manu V. Mathai.
June 20, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Diplomats from over 190 countries agreed on a draft text on green global development on June 19 to be approved this week at a summit in Rio de Janeiro, but environmentalists complained the agreement was too weak.
June 19, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--As Brazil welcomes nearly 120 heads of state and government for a summit on global development this week, the mood could not be more different than it was two decades ago, when global leaders gathered here for the landmark Earth Summit.
June 18, 2012
RIO DE JANEIRO--With the clock ticking down to the start of the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), developed and developing nations are at loggerheads over working toward the goal of a green economy.
June 18, 2012
HAIDA GWAII, Canada--Few Japanese had likely ever heard of this part of British Columbia until mid-April, when news of a Harley-Davidson with Miyagi Prefecture license plates washing ashore made headlines.