Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'environment'
Is China getting serious?
By Malini Hariharan The Chinese government's position on environmental safety has always been difficult to read. The official position for the last few years has been to reduce pollution by closing down old factories and forcing companies to invest in...
India's plastic problems
By Malini Hariharan A surprise court order in India earlier this month has put pressure on plastic packaging and has raised the risk of restrictions on its use in a very popular segment - cheap sachets or pouches that are...
Thailand's Map Ta Phut crisis - the NGO side of the story
By Malini Hariharan Penchom Saetang of Ecological Alert and Recovery - Thailand (Earth) is not a typical activist vociferously denouncing companies for their environmental misdeeds. She is soft spoken and rational in her criticism of the state of affairs at...
Thai Start-ups: What A Muddle
A real head scratcher...... Source of picture: www/http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com By John Richardson Confused? Sorry, but so far we cannot be of much help bringing any precision to what the implications of Thailand's Supreme Court ruling will mean for...
Don't count on Thai project delays
I have been digging a little deeper into the Map Ta Phut issue and it looks like expectations of major delays to projects at the site were a little premature. Construction has not stopped despite a ruling by Thailand's Central...
Balancing economics with the environment
Recent comments by An Qiyuan, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee for Shaanxi, warned of the environment and social catastrophe facing the northwestern province of China because of a shortage of water. He was referring to the diversion...
Asia needs a recesssion
Asian industry leaders are playing lip service to the environmental crisis the world confronts . George Monbiot, the excellent author and journalist, argues that what the West needs is a recession to give the planet a breather.Asia also needs a...
Will the next World War be over water?
Please read this - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/asia/28water.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin Don't worry, just keep concentrating on the short term - after all, all you have to do is keep your boss happy and make it through to retirement with loads of money in the...
Is your glass half empty of half full?
Hopefully, completely empty if you happen to live in China and can only afford to drink tap water. However, it's not the environment that this is this week being viewed as the biggest threat to the economy, but rather inflation...
There' s no hope for the planet
If anybody can spot the blatant hypocrisy, or disturbing ignorance, which is a prominent feature of the extended entry below, please feel free to comment. I expect the guy from Hood River will want to have his say....
This is not the time to behave like an Ostrich
The United Nations report on climate change, released last Friday, warned of 50 million made homeless as a result of global warming by as early as 2010. Reports such as this will serve to pile even more pressure on the...
Bringing the sceptics and the greenies together
The famous "Skeptical" environmentalist (unfortunately, the American spelling and therefore the wrong spelling), Bjorn Lomborg argues against the Kyoto Protocol in this article from the special green edition of our magazine, ICIS Chemical Business.He says, in short, that all the...
The weird and not so wonderful world of biofuels
The petrochemicals industry generally gets a bad press, but producers are unlikely to ever be charged with depriving the public of food. In fact, plastic packaging could go a long way to solving problems such as India's - where 40%...
Prepare for a legislative flood
Global leaders from the Group of Eight rich nations plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa have agreed that developing countries will have to face targets for cutting emissions as well as developed countries.If these noble words are followed...
Is global warming a load of hogwash?
I am involved in this running email debate with the only person I know who is as stubborn and as pig-headed as myself - my old schoolmate in the UK. He is convinced that global warming is indeed a load...
The Chemical Industry Blame Game
Produce too little energy over the next 35 years, says the International Energy Agency in this article from the Guardian Weekly, and there will be price hikes and a financial crash; produce too much and the increased rate of global...
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