Beijing Municipal Commission and Beijing Municipal Government have approved the Green Beijing Action Plan 2010-2012.

China's National Energy Bureau has granted licenses to 16 national energy research and development centers.

Tsinghua University, the University of Cambridge, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to form the Low Carbon Energy University Alliance.

The United Nations Environment Programme has released a report which praises Shanghai for its efforts in organizing an environmentally-friendly 2010 World Expo.

Taizhou-based BenZhou Motorcycle Group says it has unveiled a new high-speed hybrid scooter.

As part of a recent strategic cooperation agreement, Alcoa and Henan will cooperate on the sustainable development of the province's aluminum industry, deploying energy-saving and emissions reducing technologies, bauxite residue disposal, and aluminum recycling, to achieve an integrated and sustainable growth in the region.

By ChinaCSR.com Editors
This past week marked some of the first indicators in China this year that corporate social responsibility practitioners are already confronting the effects of the global financial crisis.