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Published on 24 April 2018 Indonesia
The quaint and bucolic city is home to at least 5.7 million people (2017 State Statistics). Located just 60 kilometers south of Jakarta, Bogor is often seen as the extension of the capital itself. The current President, Joko Widodo, who hails from Bogor, is known to hold office there. A busy city whose residents are mostly part of the working force, a considerable portion of…
Published on 23 April 2018
This was pointed out by Ziggie Gonzales, surfer co-founder of eco-hostel chain The Circle Hostel, who said that plastic bottles can only be recycled for certain amount of times and will end up to be just waste. “The problem will not go away if we get rid of plastic and non-biodegradables. It will only change to a different material. We need to change our mindset…
Published on 18 April 2018
The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug. The international team then tweaked the enzyme to see how it had evolved, but tests showed they had inadvertently made the molecule even…
Published on 17 April 2018
To be clear — and to the relief of chocolate lovers everywhere — Azapagic, professor of sustainable engineering at the UK’s University of Manchester, is not telling people to swear off chocolate. But she does hope consumers will think more about the impact of chocolate production when they make decisions about the treats to eat. Agriculture has a major role in climate change. Beef, for…
Published on 11 April 2018 Indonesia
Burden of proof Under the revised Criminal Code, a previously closed loophole that would allow polluters and other environmental violators to evade criminal charges on a technicality has been reopened. “It’ll make it difficult for law enforcers to prove that someone has violated the law,” Reynaldo said. He gave the example of a company that was caught polluting: If the company doesn’t have a…
Published on 11 April 2018 Cambodia
The new wildlife sanctuary will be called Sangrukhavoan wildlife sanctuary, it will cover a total area of 30,254 hectares in Along Veng and Chongkal District and Samrong city. The information about the establishment of the sanctuary has been given by the Prime Minister Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, who signed the sub-decree on 5th April 2018. He also added that the management…
Published on 10 April 2018 Indonesia
Writing about the findings in the recent Science of the Total Environment journal, researchers examined the risks to seagrass meadows throughout the vast Indonesian archipelago that makes up a key part of the famed Coral Triangle -- a marine area located in the western Pacific Ocean. This area is widely known as the center of the world's biodiversity and the meadows are the 'Prairies…
Published on 5 April 2018 Feature
Some estimates suggest that US$ 500 billion2 will be needed for adaptation by 2050, and public finances will form a crucial part of that picture. To ensure this, a new framework that helps governments mainstream spending on climate adaptation into domestic budgets, has been successfully implemented in four South Asian countries. The Financing Framework for Resilient Growth (FFRG) can help countries around the world…
Published on 27 March 2018
As a coastal city with a deep natural mangrove harbor, San Carlos is more resilient than most Philippine cities to extreme weather. And with limited cloud cover, the city enjoys more sunshine than other parts of the country, so has plenty of renewable energy potential. As such, San Carlos is shaping up to be the Philippines’ renewable energy hub. In 2014, a 45-megawatt solar plant—one…
Published on 26 March 2018 Malaysia
Caring for mangroves is a simple, straightforward love affair. Just by setting them free from vicious anthropogenic disturbances, they in return shall unconditionally defend and serve us to the best of their ability. As a matter of fact, they have been doing this for a very long time. Mangrove forests provide multiple ecosystem services and benefits to humans and nature. Their full functions and roles…
Published on 26 March 2018 Cambodia
"ADB has an ambitious plan to provide annual climate financing of 6 billion U.S. dollars by 2020 from its own resources," said Bambang Susantono, ADB vice-president for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development. "The funding from GCF will complement this effort and help our developing member countries address the effects of climate change and meet their commitments under the Paris climate agreement," Susantono added. In 2017…
Published on 26 March 2018 Cambodia
But behind this idyllic scene in the Cardamom Mountains, a billion-dollar black market is thriving. Loggers are illegally felling rare and valuable trees to sell in China and Europe, making Cambodia's deforestation rate among the world's worst. And the army itself has been implicated in the illegal trade, which has also been linked to murder. Read more: The difficult task of tracking deadly wood According…
Published on 23 March 2018
He also added, “By attracting more interest we hope to gain even more involvement with everyone in regard to the biodiversity. This aligns with our objective for the next three years, which is to achieve Aichi Biodiversity Target 1; that people are aware of the values of biodiversity and the steps they can take to conserve and use it sustainably by 2020.” Having started as…
Published on 23 March 2018 Brunei Darussalam
According to YB Dato PadukaDrHj Mat Suny Hj Md Hussein, the government has been able to save $3.6 million a year by only switching on every other street light. Meanwhile, energy saving measures enforced in government buildings has saved an annual $6 million or6 gigawatt hours (GWh). “It’s a minimal effort initiative which has brought about big savings while still maintaining public safety,” he said…
Published on 12 March 2018
UN Environment’s technical assistance and stakeholder engagement were instrumental in helping the country work out how to promote sustainable, energy-efficient buildings to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while ensuring affordable housing for its citizens. The assistance was provided via NAMA for the Building Sector in Asia, a project of the International Climate Initiative. The project supported Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam to design government-led…
Published on 10 March 2018 Malaysia
There are a number of policies and initiatives, however, which the Malaysian government could introduce to bring its emissions down to levels more comparable to the rest of ASEAN. A peer review was recently conducted under the auspices of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on the Malaysian government’s energy efficiency initiatives, which commended these efforts. But it is Malaysia’s energy mix, or lack thereof, that causes…
Published on 7 March 2018
The promising gains in connectivity mean there is vast potential for innovative solutions aimed at including the 80 percent of people who are outside the formal financial system. But digital financial services via mobile technology – also known as financial technology, or in tech – can do more than make financial transactions safer, quicker and more efficient. They can also serve as the rails upon…
Published on 7 March 2018
“Tropical reef systems are transitioning to a new era in which the interval between recurrent bouts of coral bleaching is too short for a full recovery of mature assemblages,” they write. “The median return time between pairs of severe bleaching events has diminished steadily since 1980 and is now only 6 years. As global warming has progressed, tropical sea surface temperatures are warmer now during…
Published on 6 March 2018
The 51-year-old has another long day ahead of him. Six hectares of rice field takes him a month to cultivate and seed. He owns no farm machinery, only two oxen, and a wooden plough. But that is enough to get work done before the annual floods when water fills his land and rice begins to float. A resident of Tnot Village in Kampong Thom province…
Published on 1 March 2018
“I had the opportunity to come here over a 15-year period, and even within a human’s lifetime, you can already see the changes brought about by climate change,” the director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), Marcelo Leppe, told AFP. Observers can now see “rocks that we weren’t seeing five or 10 years ago, and that is direct evidence of the shrinking of these glaciers…
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