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Published on 10 July 2015 Philippines
Local governments may send project proposals to access the fund as early as August, said Red Constantino, PSF board member representing civil society, during a Senate environment committee hearing on Wednesday, July 8. “Paris is going to be really important for the whole world so we don’t want to go to Paris without having issued a call for proposals. I’m hoping in August we…
Published on 10 July 2015 Global
“The world is at a critical crossroads,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a message read to the academic gathering. While nations have committed to limiting average global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels, research shows the world is heading for double or more that on current greenhouse gas emission trends, he said. And based on emissions curbs…
Published on 10 July 2015 Indonesia
Launched in Jakarta by H.E. Dr. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Minister of Environment and Forestry, Republic of Indonesia - the study provides a valuation of the multiple benefits provided by forests in Indonesia. Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said, "In addition to their ecological, cultural and spiritual value, forests play a critical role in sustaining national economies…
Published on 10 July 2015 Southeast Asia
"We find a clear overall upward trend for these unprecedented hazards," lead author Jascha Lehmann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said in a statement. Overall, there were 12 percent more downpours which broke local records from 1981 to 2010 than would be expected in an unchanged climate, according to an analysis of rainfall statistics from thousands of weather stations since 1900…
Published on 6 July 2015
This joint organized workshop was held with the objectives to raise awareness and build capacity of key NGO members/partners in the region on Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), Loss and Damage (L&D), National Adaptation Plans (NAP) and Join Principle for Adaptation (JPAs), to open up a space for communications and dialog on relevant issues with the Government, and to build on knowledge and to…
Published on 6 July 2015 Global
The House in 2009 approved a bipartisan “cap and trade” bill designed to impose ceilings on industrial carbon emissions, while allowing utilities and other businesses to swap credits to meet their targets. But the bill authored by former Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts – now a senator – was defeated, the victim of industrial and anti-tax forces and general…
Published on 6 July 2015 Philippines
The rice varieties are climate-resilient, higher yielding, resistant to major pests and diseases, and resistant to hostile environments. The collaborative project, titled “Accelerating the development and adoption of next-generation rice varieties for major ecosystems in the Philippines,” is an initiative under the Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP) of the Department of Agriculture (DA), PhilRice and IRRI in partnership with the University of the Philippines-Los…
Published on 6 July 2015 Philippines
“The investment in farm machineries and postharvest facilities is also a climate-change adaptability initiative. It also raised our corn’s quality and helped it become more price-competitive,” de Luna said in a statement. He added that if harvesting is done manually during typhoons, the chances of crops being damaged are higher. “If you will use a combined harvester, you can harvest a hectare in no…
Published on 6 July 2015 Thailand
The Buddhist temple of Wat Khun Samut, now a popular tourist destination, was once a central part of a thriving community, long gone after the sea devoured the coastline. Only the tops of a few buildings still protrude from the rolling waters. Every year, from Vietnam to Bangladesh, significant chunks of the shoreline are lost to the sea. In the Gulf of Thailand, almost a…
Published on 6 July 2015 Singapore
Singapore submitted their target plans to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Thursday, July 2, in preparation for the upcoming global talks to be held in Paris on December 2015. The said meeting aims to reach out to countries and establish commitments that can help to alleviate global warming and prevent its dangerous consequences in the future. The targets that…
Published on 6 July 2015 Global
As part of Din l-Art Ħelwa’s 50th anniversary activities, a public lecture was delivered by Michael Zammit Cutajar, a veteran of climate conference negotiations since 1991. He is currently advising a think tank (Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations) ahead of the next climate summit in Paris this year. The summit is seen by many as the last effective opportunity to negotiate arrangements…
Published on 6 July 2015 Thailand
The forum is a lead-up event to the 21st Conference of Parties (COP) - also known as the 2015 Paris Climate Conference - in early December. The director for the Cross-sectoral Corporation Directorate, Larry Maramis, said Asean countries had the ability to follow low carbon development. He also stressed that a shift to lower carbon use was urgently needed to minimise the rise…
Published on 6 July 2015 Global
The commission’s recommendations are all based on solid evidence about the link between greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and human health. Focusing only on energy policy, however, will not be enough to head off climate change successfully. Calls for action that do not include reduction in the world’s livestock production and meat consumption will not be able to protect public health from the effects…
Published on 3 July 2015 Philippines
The collaborative project entitled, ‘Accelerating the development and adoption of next-generation (NextGen) rice varieties for major ecosystems in the Philippines’ aims to fast-track the introduction and adoption of higher yielding inbred and hybrid rice varieties that are resistant to major pests and diseases, and can withstand adverse environments. To help the country achieve food security, the project targets to produce higher yields by…
Published on 3 July 2015 Global
“The pace of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations is far too slow. It’s like snails, moving snail’s pace,” Ban said at a high-level event on climate change referring to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations currently taking place in Bonn, ahead of the official 2015 climate change conference set to take place in Paris on Dec. 7-8. The…
Published on 3 July 2015 Global
Smugglers are preying on refugees, social services in poor Middle Eastern and African countries have been stretched to the limit, and Europe and Australia are turning back exiles at their borders. António Guterres, U.N. high commissioner for refugees, acknowledged that relief agencies are overwhelmed. "We don't have the capacity and we don't have the resources to support all the victims of conflict around the world…
Published on 3 July 2015 Global
Questions abound on why global collective action to address climate change is a failure. To many climate sceptics, climate change diplomacy — after more than 20 years — is ineffective and has taken one full circle. Diplomacy, reportedly, is “the practice of conducting negotiations between state and group representatives, (and) is critical to integrating climate change into foreign policy and to developing the conditions…
Published on 3 July 2015 Lao PDR
Representatives from Asia-Pacific and Europe attended a five-day capacity development training on Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment via the Consultative Group of Experts (CGE) due to conclude Friday. He called on both public and private sector to address the challenges presented in both global and local sense by fully integrating the emerging realities brought by climate change into policy and implementation in an integrated fashion…
Published on 3 July 2015 Malaysia
One news which deserves far greater recognition was the decision of the Dutch court in holding the state responsible for the dangers caused by climate change. This decision was the first of its kind and more of it is very much needed. I can’t stress the urgency to address the issue of climate change. Most governments (perhaps ignorant), and even the public in general…
Published on 29 June 2015 Global
Mushahidullah suggested that boosting adaptation in climate-sensitive agriculture, water, livestock, fisheries and forest sectors in the Asia-Pacific region, which is home to two-thirds (743 million) of the world’s total poor people, has become indispensable to abate economic inequality as mostly the poor bear the brunt of natural disasters. The minister highlighted that according to the world-acclaimed German-based research institute’s Global Climate Risk Index-2015, five…
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