We recently won an award at the #CIBSE# SDE Awards for a #digitaltwin# of a #lowcarbon# bridge. This example is discussed in our latest 'Sandbox' episode... Watch the video below to see this Digital Twin example in detail, and find the full episode on all #podcast# platforms.

China's first full-chain green and low-carbon ethylene project was put into operation on Thursday, lifting annual ethylene capacity at the Dushanzi Petrochemical complex to more than 3 million metric tons and making it the only ethylene production base of that scale in the country's central and western regions.

200 MW of new capacity on Singapore's low-carbon data center park on Jurong Island have been provisionally awarded to Digital Realty, Equinix, Keppel Data Centres and ST Telemedia. The government received more than 20 proposals. At least 50% of each project’s capacity must use green energy, and liquid cooling is part of the bid commitment.

China has released a five-year plan to advance the green and low-carbon transformation of its industrial sector, setting a target of peaking carbon dioxide emissions from industry by 2030. A range of key tasks are outlined, including implementing industrial carbon peaking initiatives, expanding the supply of green equipment and products, strengthening green and low-carbon technological innovation, and improving industrial resource recycling systems. #GreenChina# #CarbonPeaking#

Since its establishment in 2017, China's #Xiongan# New Area has been advancing green and low-carbon development through ecological conservation, green infrastructure and sustainable urban planning. A look at the numbers shows how the new area is integrating environmental improvement with urban development to build a green, low-carbon and livable city of the future.

Can AI help break the “impossible trinity" of energy security, green and low-carbon development, and economic efficiency? Can AI speed up R&D and shorten the distance from laboratory to real-world application for innovations? Liu Zhongmin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, shares his thoughts with Yicai in the latest episode of #BusinessInsights#.

In 2025, 99% of Sweden’s electricity came from low-carbon sources — the highest share in the EU. Its power system is built on a model Europe should have copied decades ago: → Hydro: ~40% of electricity → Nuclear: ~27% → Wind: ~23% → Fossil fuels: only ~1.2% Sweden combined domestic hydro, nuclear baseload, rapid wind expansion, bioenergy, district heating and electrification. In 2024, Sweden already had the highest renewable energy share in the EU: 62.8% of gross final energy consumption, compared with only 25.2% for the EU average. And in 2025, Sweden doubled down: parliament passed legislation to finance a new generation of nuclear reactors, targeting around 5,000 MW of new capacity, with roughly half expected online by 2035. This is what Europe should have done over the last two decades. (Sweden had a structural advantage: abundant rivers, large hydro resources, low population density and decades of investment in domestic clean power). But the lesson is not only geography. With common debt, larger national investment and coordinated European energy projects, Europe could have moved much closer to real energy sovereignty through renewables, hydro, nuclear, grids, storage and electrification. Instead, much of Europe remained too dependent on external fossil fuels.