Browsing: Pacific

The World Hydrogen Expo 2025 opened today at KINTEX with a ceremony underscoring Korea’s intent to position hydrogen within its broader industrial and mobility strategy.

As Southeast Asia’s packaging waste volumes continue to rise—driven by rapid urbanization, growing consumption, and limited recycling infrastructure, policymakers and industry leaders are intensifying efforts to develop systems that can shift the region toward a functional circular economy.

Singapore’s energy and chemicals sector accounts for one of the country’s most emissions-intensive industrial clusters, with the energy and chemicals…

South Korea’s latest move to expand green hydrogen production arrives at a time when global electrolyzer deployment is surging, growing more than 400% between 2022 and 2024, according to IEA data.

South Korea’s hydrogen ambitions are moving into a new phase, with Hyundai Motor Group preparing a 1-gigawatt green hydrogen production…

Australia’s energy transition hinges on a single figure: up to 95% variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration in the National Energy Market by 2030, according to CSIRO and AEMO modeling. Reaching that threshold, necessary for the country to hit its 43% emissions-reduction target by 2030 and net zero by 2050, requires storage technologies that can deliver reliable, multi-hour power far beyond the capabilities of lithium-ion systems.

Japan’s effort to scale low-carbon fuels has taken a tangible step forward with INPEX Corporation launching the country’s first integrated blue hydrogen and blue ammonia demonstration plant in Niigata Prefecture.

The political and economic stakes surrounding the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) became sharply visible at COP30, as competing visions for global trade, climate ambition, and industrial competitiveness played out in real time.

China’s grid investment is projected to exceed ¥3 trillion this decade as the country works toward its dual-carbon goals, and the latest agreement between Shanghai Electric and Siemens positions both companies to capture a share of that momentum.

China’s carbon dioxide emissions were unchanged year-on-year in the third quarter of 2025, extending an 18-month period of flat or declining output that began in March 2024.