Sluggish demand growth for liquefied natural gas (LNG), combined with a record increase in global export capacity through 2028, will likely thrust markets into an extended period of oversupply, according to the latest Global LNG Outlook from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). As major importing regions—including …
When environmental campaigners began tracking a hi-tech South Korean trawler off the coast of West Africa, they were looking for proof of illegal fishing of dwindling African stocks. What they uncovered was an altogether different kind of travesty: human degradation so extreme it echoed the slavery they thought had been …
South Korea said on Tuesday it planned to require 374 local companies to meet energy-saving and greenhouse gas reduction targets set by the government. The government will set the goals for 2012 in discussions with the companies by September 2011, officials of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said by telephone. …
Since 97% of its fossil fuels are imported, raising the share of renewables to 11% by 2030 is South Korea's solutionBarun Roy / New Delhi August 12, 2010, 0:15 ISTOne might call it the Second Korean War, except that its frontiers are all in the south, its weapons aren
ADB has upgraded its 2010 growth forecast for the 14 economies of emerging East Asia to an aggregate 8.1 percent from the 7.7 percent projected in the former Asian Development Outlook 2010, published in April.
The air quality index (AQI) is an "index" determined by calculating the degree of pollution in the city (as an average) or at the monitoring point and includes five main pollutants
On the analysis in his recent study I drew a large, random sample of papers from all disciplines declared to have tested a hypothesis and of which the main author was working in the US. I verified whether these papers were more or less likely to support the hypothesis they …
Says Report Ignores Subsidies Offered By Developed Nations New Delhi: India is expected to stand firm on its fuel subsidy regime at the meeting of G20 finance ministers at Busan in South Korea on Friday and tear into a report prepared for the grouping, blaming government dole for encouraging inefficient …
Defying predictions for a drawn-out battle, parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species rejected a bid to ban cross-border trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, the Rolls Royce of the species, early at their meeting in Doha during the last two weeks of March.
In December 2009, an important United Nations climate change conference (COP15) took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. This conference resulted in the Copenhagen Accord, which forms the basis for further negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, later this year. As part of the Copenhagen Accord, industrialised countries have submitted greenhouse gas emission reduction …
Without exception, global warming affects the water resources in Korea. Several climate change projects have been initiated for future water resources assessment but have produced very different projections with a significant range of heterogeneities. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a standard procedure and scheme that can reduce this heterogeneity. …
The South Korean police arrested a couple who became so obsessed with an online game that they starved their infant daughter to death. Newspaper reports said the unemployed couple from a Seoul suburb indulged themselves in the 3D fantasy game, Prius Online, which allows users to choose a career and …
In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented a moratorium on commercial whaling. Many people believed that this would save the whales and end forever the industrial slaughter that had decimated entire species. Not so. A proposal before the IWC could lead to the resumption of commercial whaling as early …
China and South Korea have invested heavily in environmental stimulus projects. Other G20 countries need to deliver on their sustainability promises to save both the planet and the economy, says Edward Barbier.
