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Published on 13 April 2015 Philippines
The following link will take you to INQUIRER.net: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/685055/16-ph-cities-not-ready-for-climate-change-challenge-says-study Source: Inquirer.net | 13 April 2015
Published on 13 April 2015 Philippines
The findings said the warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented in decades to millennia; the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased; each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the Earth's surface than any preceding decade since 1850; and 1983–2012 was likely the warmest 30-year period of the last…
Published on 13 April 2015
The announcement was made during the EHCC Award ceremony in South Korea last night. PJ won the award based on the scale of actions and leadership capacity shown by its City Council to tackle a diverse range of areas; the city’s innovative approaches to ensure public participation were also commended by the panel of international jury. Shah Alam was recognized for displaying strong efforts…
Published on 13 April 2015 Feature
“So, what do I feel about climate change? Interest, intellectual curiosity, satisfaction, excitement, extreme worry, sadness, fear and perhaps a glimmer of hope...” – Dr. Ruth Mottram, Danish Meteorological Institute Humans have lived through climate change before. Throughout pre-historic times our species faced threats to our existence as populations battled to adapt to dramatically changing climatic conditions (mostly due to advancing and receding ice ages)…
Published on 13 April 2015 Global
The ICLEI is a global association of local governments and organizations that was established in 1990 when representatives of more than 200 local governments from 43 countries gathered at the World Congress of Local Governments for a Sustainable Future at the UN in New York. In his speech, Randers said intense environmental problems will steal part of the world’s growth as labor and…
Published on 10 April 2015 Feature
To reach that goal Indonesia is, among other things, actively developing renewable energy sources and improving energy efficiency. For the latter, they have proposed a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) called the Smart Street Lighting Initiative (SSLI) that aims to increase the efficiency of street lighting by substituting conventional street lighting with more efficient technologies in cities and urban areas. The SSLI cleverly combines…
Published on 10 April 2015 Global
Climate change is a big topic, it covers a lot of issues that relate the world affairs, to impacts on environments such as Pacific atolls and the Arctic and Antarctic ice mass. Those places are a long way from where most of us live. But what if you could sit at a computer and get an understanding of the impact that global emission levels…
Published on 10 April 2015
West Malaysian speakers at the occasion praised the organizers and sponsors for making the annual event a success. The other states and federal territories recovering from last year's flood and current draught did not commemorate the occasion with any events. World Water Day is a day to celebrate water. It's a day to make a difference for the members of the global population who…
Published on 10 April 2015 Southeast Asia
Planning under uncertainty The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) Future Scenarios Team joined forces with UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) for a second time to help governments and their partners in Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos plan under uncertainty. Key policy makers and stakeholders from different sectors met to critically evaluate and strengthen national agricultural, environmental and climate…
Published on 7 April 2015 Southeast Asia
These islands are especially vulnerable because of their large populations and because much of their land is exposed to storm surges and sea-level rises, according to research published by risk analysis group Verisk Maplecroft. Eight of the 10 cities most at risk from such events are in the Philippines, according to a study by the same firm last month, which said the country had…
Published on 7 April 2015 Singapore
The National Environment Agency (NEA) said in its latest fortnightly weather forecast that Singapore is expected to have short-duration thundery showers in the afternoons on six to eight days over the next fortnight - with heavy showers at times. The next two weeks are also expected to have some warm days with temperatures reaching 34o C, and slightly hazy conditions. The island recorded 45mm…
Published on 7 April 2015 Global
The researchers − from the UK, Switzerland and the US − conclude that policy-makers must apply the brakes and put a high price on carbon emissions “before it is too late”. Much of the argument on this issue revolves around the perceived cost of carbon emissions and any tax that should be imposed on fossil fuel use. Social scientists and economists and climate modelers…
Published on 7 April 2015 Feature
The rise in vegetation is the result of a major tree-planting campaign in China and unintentional increases in grasslands and non-tropical forests in former Soviet states, Australia and Africa, as heavy rainfall and abandoned farms improve growing conditions, according to new research. The net increase in vegetation is so substantial that the world’s trees and other plants store 4 billion tons more carbon today…
Published on 31 March 2015 Global
Indeed, geographical isolation, small populations, and paucity of resources—as well as extreme vulnerability to climate change—call for a very different approach to development in the Pacific, says the newly released Independent Evaluation study, ADB Support to Small Pacific Island Countries. “The category five cyclone that devastated Vanuatu could well be the new norm,” said Vinod Thomas, Director General of Independent Evaluation at ADB. “Pacific…
Published on 31 March 2015
Hanoi pioneered the drive, which spread to other cities and provinces across the country including Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Can Tho, Hai Phong and Quang Ninh. Through various means of communication, such as riding bicycles, marching, delivering leaflets, and hanging posters, young volunteers helped raise public awareness of saving energy in response to climate change. Minister of Industry and Trade Vu Huy…
Published on 31 March 2015 Philippines
The following link will take you to INQUIRER.net: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/682213/paje-ph-ready-to-cut-carbon-emissions-too Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer | 30 March 2015  
Published on 31 March 2015 Southeast Asia
Millions are expected to take part around the world in the annual event organized by conservation group WWF, with hundreds of well-known sights including the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the Seattle Space Needle set to plunge into darkness. “It’s almost like the thing vanished,” said Tony Jennings from Earth Hour after standing under the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the lights went off at…
Published on 25 March 2015 Global
The majority of warming linked to soaring levels of greenhouse gas emissions was being stored in the upper and lower levels of the seas, it said in its annual Status of the Global Climate report for 2014. Sea-surface temperatures were “much warmer than average” across the north Pacific, southwest Pacific, Indian Ocean as well as the polar region of the North Atlantic. Last year…
Published on 25 March 2015 Indonesia
Indonesia is experiencing deforestation rates of about 680,000 hectares per year and high rates of biodiversity loss, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation representative said. "It is impossible to win the battle against climate change without doubling our efforts to reduce deforestation in Indonesia," Mark Smulders said on the International Day of Forests. He said with Indonesia's forests cover half of the…
Published on 25 March 2015 Global
This was one of the findings from the 3rd Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Montpellier, France, this week. More than 700 participants coming from 75 different countries around the world convened at the conference to share their experience and agree on global and specific research agendas. The conference gathered representatives from scientific organizations, national and international governmental organizations, farmers’ associations, industries, NGOs…
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