In short, the NSB report strikes me as much ado about nothing.

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To get a closer look at how EEs differ in several of the Asian countries mentioned in the NSB study, I bring some fresh exposure.

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No Southampton Biomass (NSB) called it an attempt to "sneak in a large scale development under our radar with purposely misleading literature and dubious environmental claims".

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According to the NSB index of residential property prices in 70 tier 1 and tier 2 cities, prices fell in highly populated cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to name a few.

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