China’s President Xi Jinping won kudos for announcing on his state visit to Washington, D.C. in late September that China will by 2017 enact a cap-and-trade system designed to cut carbon emissions. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

Planes can’t land, schools are closed, states of emergency imposed and the Indonesian President Joko Widodo makes a surprise visit to still-smoking South Sumatra. This is the new normal for Southeast Asian summers — choking haze from Indonesian forest fires. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

The coal market has known that China’s economy has been slowing even before the recent bout of stock market turbulence. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

Huawei is one of those really big Chinese companies that should be better known in the rest of the world. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

When China’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, Xinjiang Goldwind Science and Technology Co. Ltd., successfully floated its first U.S. dollar debt offering in July, I decided to take another look at the company. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

If the technology capital of America cannot manage its water, what hope is there for Asia? By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

Asia is enduring an environmental nightmare. In China alone, air pollution kills 1.2 million people a year. Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford gave a talk on what is needed to start cleaning up the mess in China and throughout Asia. The talk was covered by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club.

People in Hong Kong SAR, China will breathe a bit more easily after July 1. That’s when container ships and cruise liners at one of the world’s busiest ports will have to switch to low-sulphur fuel. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.

Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford spoke in an interview about better leveraging Asia’s private sector in resolving the climate change crisis facing the continent.

What will it take for humanity to listen to scientists? That was the question a panel of Nobel Laureates asked at Hong Kong’s Asia Society Center on April 22nd as they urged quick global action on climate change. By Asia Business Council Executive Director Mark Clifford.