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Eco Expo Asia opens today

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HONG KONG, Dec 14, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The Eco Expo Asia 2022, jointly organised by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd and co-organised by the Environment and Ecology Bureau of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), begins today at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). The four-day Expo runs until 17 December and adopts the brand-new EXHIBITION+ model, which allows exhibitors and buyers to extend interactions from the physical fair to the online platform "Click2Match" until 24 December. The last day of the event on 17 December is open to the public for free to encourage them to take part in green activities and practice green living.The Eco Expo Asia 2022, jointly organised by HKTDC and Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, opens today.HKTDC Deputy Executive Director Sophia Chong, spoke at the Opening Ceremony today.Tse Chin-wan, Secretary for Environment & Ecology of the HKSAR Government visits the fairground with Sophia Chong, Deputy Executive Director of the HKTDC, and other VIP guests.Tse Chin-wan, Secretary for Environment and Ecology, HKSAR Government and Sophia Chong, De...

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ONERHT partners Democratic Republic of Congo for sustainable economic development and growth

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SINGAPORE, Oct 25, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Sustainability consultancy RHT Green and strategic advisory firm RHT Consulting Asia have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to support the implementation of multisectoral sustainable development projects in the central African country.H.E. Deputy Prime Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Democratic Republic of Congo (centre), during her visit to ONERHT's office in SingaporeRHTLaw Asia and RHT Group of Companies, which includes RHT Green and RHT Consulting Asia (collectively "ONERHT"), welcomed the delegation of Her Excellency Eve Bazaiba, Deputy Prime Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development of the DRC on her maiden visit to Asia.Hosted by ONERHT, Her Excellency was briefed on Singapore's approach to sustainable development and exchanged ideas for sustainable development and green growth in the DRC. The MOU marks the culmination of discussions between the parties on sustainable value creation strategies and efforts to design effective environmental policies for the DRC...

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The 5th Brasil Investment Forum Brought Together Global Business Leaders, Actively Promotes the High-quality Investment Opportunities in Brazil

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SHANGHAI, Jun 20, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The 5th Brasil Investment Forum ("BIF 2022"), the largest foreign investment forum in Latin America jointly organized by Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency ("ApexBrasil"), Inter-American Development Bank and the Federal Government of Brazil, concluded successfully on 15 June 2022. During the forum, heavyweight speakers shared views on a range of topics, discussed the business environment and opportunities in Brazil, and promoted numbers of high-quality investments.BIF 2022 has achieved huge success with various record-breaking figures this year. The forum has attracted and presented 157 investment projects with an estimated investment value of USD66.4 billion, expecting to create 200,000 direct and indirect job opportunities in Brasil. The investment projects are mainly in transportation and infrastructure sectors, namely airports, railways, highways, ports, oil and gas, and energy. Among which, investors showed the strongest interest in railway market, 61 railway projects with a total investment value of US$31.81 billion were presented during the forum. The second most popular sector was road market. The cont...

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Everbright Environment Tops Brand Value Ranking for China’s Listed Environmental Protection Companies

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HONG KONG, Apr 20, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - The "Blue Book on Brand Value of Chinese Listed Companies 2021" (the "Blue Book") was recently published by the mainland China publication National Business Daily in collaboration with the China Business Research Centre, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. The brand value ranking of the listed companies in China's environmental protection industry was also revealed in the Blue Book. China Everbright Environment Group Limited ("Everbright Environment" or the "Company") (SEHK: 257) topped the list with a brand value of RMB14.622 billion - the only listed environmental protection company with a brand value of over RMB10 billion. Not only does the Company have a brand value that exceeds the sum of the companies ranked second to fifth, but it also has an annual growth rate of 47.3% (compared to the overall industry growth rate of 14.5%), highlighting its status as the leading player in the industry. Everbright Environment is a leading enterprise in China's environmental industry and the first one-stop integrated environmental solution provider in China. The Company focuses on the four major areas of enviro...

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DOCOMO Opens vRAN Verification Facility to Global Mobile Operators

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TOKYO, Feb 28, 2022 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has begun allowing overseas mobile operators to access its Shared Open Lab environment, located in DOCOMO's R&D Center in Yokosuka, Japan, to verify their virtualized radio access networks (vRAN), effective immediately. The lab is one of the initiatives of the New window5G Open RAN Ecosystem (OREC) project under which DOCOMO and 13 leading global vendors* are working to develop truly flexible Open RAN capable of incorporating interoperable equipment of multiple vendors.Shared Open Lab environmentSince its establishment last October, the Shared Open Lab has deployed virtualized base stations made with equipment from multiple OREC partners. The verification environment is now open to remote access by global operators, eliminating their need to prepare in-house verification environments.DOCOMO believes the lab will help operators to greatly reduce overall costs, including constructing in-house labs and/or traveling to vendors' labs, for the verification of base station functions and performance prior to commercial deployment.DOCOMO, which has been a leader in the development of Open R...

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Corinium Presents: CISO Zero Trust Online ASEAN

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Singapore, Feb 1, 2022 - (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - As we become more connected and the digital space becomes an essential part of life, opportunities for new threat vectors to emerge from the digital underbelly have also grown and multiplied.IT and cyber security leaders worldwide are readying themselves to tackle new risks and bad actors, with attention turned towards securing our increasingly connected networks and systems. This is where the principles of Zero Trust come in to support the global initiatives to protect our data and networks. With the 'never trust, always verify' attitude, infosec leaders have found themselves in a more advantageous position to defend their digital terrains and plan the steps for future cyber battles. At CISO Zero Trust ASEAN Online, Southeast Asia's infosec leaders and future leaders will gather together to discuss the risks and strategies that will support the adoption of a Zero Trust mentality across the region to secure their perimeterless domains and safeguard their networks and connections.In the ever-evolving mission to ensure your organisation's IT Security remains gapless and an enterprise stronghold, CISOs, IT Security leaders an...

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MHI Thermal Systems Receives ‘2021 Minister of the Environment Award for Climate Action’ for ‘Q-ton Circulation’ Air-to-Water Heat Pump

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TOKYO, Nov 25, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Thermal Systems, Ltd. (MHI Thermal Systems), a group company of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), has received 2021 Minister of the Environment for Climate Action Award sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment for its "Q-ton Circulation," an air-to-water heat pump jointly developed with Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. The award was given in the Technological Development and Commercialization category in recognition of the development and promotion of an air-source type heat pump using a refrigerant with a low global warming potential (GWP)(1). The award ceremony will take place on December 8 at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition hall.Q-ton CirculationThe Ministry of the Environment accolade marks the fourth award bestowed on the Q-ton Circulation. In 2019, the new heat pump received the 47th Technology Award from the Japan Society of Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (JSRAE). In 2021, it received the Excellence Award in the Refurbishment Equipment category of the 38th Excellent Energy Saving Equipment Awards (recipient: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air-Conditioning and Refr...

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NEC Signs the “Business Ambition for 1.5 degrees Celsius Pledge”

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TOKYO, Oct 26, 2021 - (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has signed the "Business Ambition for 1.5degC Pledge," aiming to keep the rise in global temperature within 1.5degC. The Business Ambition for 1.5degC Pledge is a campaign led by the United Nations Global Compact(1), We Mean Business(2), and the Science Based Targets (SBT) Initiative(3) that urges companies to set science-based targets aiming for net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050. In response to this call, NEC is now aiming for net zero greenhouse gas emissions throughout its supply chain.NEC has been promoting initiatives to achieve the SBT 1.5degC target as a part of "Responding to Environmental Issues Centered on Climate Change," which is specified as one of the management priority themes of "Materiality" from the ESG perspective in NEC's "Mid-term Management Plan 2025." NEC is also a proud member of "RE100"(4).In order to accelerate its GHG reduction initiatives, NEC has resolved to operate its Tokyo-based headquarters and the "NEC Cloud IaaS"(5) cloud infrastructure service with only renewable electricity from the fiscal year 2022. NEC will also continue to steadily reduce GHG em...

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Capturing the decarbonisation investment opportunity

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The world is at a tipping point as far as climate change is concerned. Research released in early 2020 by NASA – the United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration – and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, for instance, said 2019 capped the hottest decade in recorded history. Further, the World Meteorological Office said last year was one of the warmest since 1850, and has cited rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere despite Covid-19. Such overwhelming evidence of the magnitude of the climate problem has put the need to act at the top of the global agenda. In fact, 2020 heralded the most significant commitments yet to tackling these escalating challenges. Accelerated by the pandemic-inspired pivot towards environmental solutions and technologies, in part to stimulate recoveries, the five largest economies – the US, China, the EU, Japan and the UK – have taken key steps in recent months towards a low-carbon future. Within Asia, for example: China has vowed to achieve “net-zero” carbon emissions by 2060 Other fossil-fuel-reliant economies like Japan and South Korea have committed to carbon neutrality by 2050 In Singapore, meanwhile, the ...

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“One Yangtze” Sustainable Development Forum encourages communication between capital market and environmental protection field through ESG investing

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BEIJING, Dec 21, 2020 - (ACN Newswire) - Huatai Securities Co., Ltd. (601688.CH; 6886.HK; HTSC.LI; "Huatai Securities" or "The Company") sponsored the "One Yangtze" Sustainable Development Forum in Beijing, to encourage communication between the capital market and ecological environment protection field. Representatives from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE), National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with representatives from ecological environment organizations and the financial industry, jointly explored the ecological environment access in ESG investment to improve the application of data in order to promote sustainable development.In recent years, many investment projects have caused damages on the ecological environment and biodiversity. Although under the supervision of environmental protection departments, many of these projects resulted in forced suspensions due to strong opposition and backlash from civil organizations and mounting media scrutiny. These projects have caused not only significant economic losses to the financial industry, but have also severely impacted the re...

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Fujitsu Chosen for the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for 21st Time

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TOKYO, Nov 19, 2020 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu today announced that it has been chosen for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), the world's leading Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)(1) index. This is the 21st time for Fujitsu to have been included in this index since its creation in 1999.DJSI World is a stock index offered cooperatively by US-based S&P Dow Jones Indices that selects companies for their excellent sustainability, based on an analysis from the perspective of governance and economics, the environment, and society. Annually, 2,500 companies are eligible globally for this designation, and the top 10% of businesses per industry are chosen from the perspective of sustainability. Including Fujitsu, 323 companies were selected for DJSI World in 2020, 39 of which were Japanese companies.Fujitsu achieved high evaluations in the IT services & Internet Software and Services industry group on the basis of its environmental initiatives, such as "Environmental Reporting" and "Climate Strategy", and its efforts related to the area of society, including its "Corporate Citizenship and Philanthropy" and "Human Rights" initiatives. Fujitsu will...