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Published on 11 January 2018 Feature
1. Evaluate your present consumption and set a goal Calculate how much energy you used this year 2017 by taking a look at your utility bills and establishing a particular goal for reducing it: for instance, 10 percent in six months. 2. Audit your home Search your house for opportunities to attain your objective. Inspect each room, making an inventory of everything that’s plugged in…
Published on 9 January 2018
Climate change is here Vietnam’s vulnerability is exacerbated by its 2,150-mile-long coastline and proximity to the tropics. Vietnam’s 95 million people and the bulk of its economic assets, including a large rural population, are concentrated in the coastal lowlands, which are susceptible to typhoons. Every year since 1990, natural disasters have cost on average about one percent of GDP and caused 500 casualties. In…
Published on 9 January 2018
"When floods occur, the capacity of people to earn a living is constrained, and many can fall back into poverty. Investments that improve flood management helps protect vulnerable communities as well as boost resilience against the impact of climate change," World Bank country director for Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand was quoted as saying in the statement. Loan agreements with the WB and AIIB were…
Published on 9 January 2018
More than 35 experts from the livestock, animal health, public health and agriculture sectors in the country, representing funders, national institutes, government at both central and provincial levels, embassies, civil society, research academia and the private sector attended the meeting. In opening remarks, Hung Nguyen, regional representative for the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in East and Southeast Asia, said that the climate-sensitive diseases (CSDs)…
Published on 7 January 2018 Thailand
Prominent water and climate change experts interviewed by The Nation agreed that Thailand will receive larger amount of precipitation than usual due to the influence of the La Nina phase of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is expected during this year. They also agreed that this year’s water situation was expected to resemble that of 1995. The year 1995 was one of the…
Published on 4 January 2018 Indonesia
This is the rationale behind Indonesia’s mitigation measures which heavily focus on land use, land use change and forestry and energy-derived emissions where 80 percent of the national emission reduction actions focus on the LULUCF. Let’s look at the progress of Indonesia’s emission reduction from deforestation in the last decade. Indonesia’s climate journey was especially marked in the G20 meeting in 2011 through its statement…
Published on 29 December 2017
His ministry wants the public to know “the government alone cannot tackle climate change”, and will be rallying Singaporeans to take steps to reduce their carbon footprint with the help of various partners. On the ground, there is no lack of enthusiasm among environmental activists, who already have plans lined up to get people to take little steps to make a difference – bring their…
Published on 29 December 2017 Global
Lawsuits in the United States brought by young activists and several Californian cities are most likely to make waves, but legal action by a Peruvian farmer in Germany and Greenpeace in Norway could also cause ripples, said lawyers and academics. “There is a trend towards more litigation around climate change, and probably the lack of political action in the United States may increase that trend,”…
Published on 10 December 2017
Its executive director, I. S. Shanmugaraj told theSun that they have observed the changes in fruiting seasons in both local fruit trees like durians and in wild trees in the forest. "Fruit seasons, even in the trees in the wild, have changed due to the changes in rain and heat patterns. Even the pattern of flowering in plants and trees has changed. When it rains…
Published on 10 December 2017 Global
“I strongly hope that this summit, as well as other initiatives that go in the same direction, will foster a clear awareness of the need to adopt genuinely effective measures to counteract climate change and, at the same time, to combat poverty and promote integral human development,” he added. The Pope also took advantage of the occasion to tie climate change to recent extreme weather…
Published on 9 December 2017
“I am pleased to announce that Semporna is the first district in Sabah to launch a Coral Bleaching Early Response Plan,” he said, adding that the Semporna Priority Conservation Area had the largest coral reef coverage in Malaysia. The conservation area, which is in the Coral Triangle, is the center of marine biodiversity and provides ecosystem services to people in, and beyond the area. Universiti…
Published on 6 December 2017
At that time, international scientists pointed out that Truong Son is one of the richest biodiversity centers in the world. Some of them said Truong Son is in the top 10, while others say the top 15, but they all agreed that Truong Son is among the leading centers.The discovery of sao la (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), one of the world’s rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine…
Published on 5 December 2017 Thailand
It used to be said that flooding in the south of Thailand was an annual event during the wet season but it is now happening more than once a year. For the past week, the province of Songkhla - along with others in the region - has been pelted by heavy rain resulting in all 16 districts being declared disaster zones. To a large extent…
Published on 5 December 2017
At a workshop on practical lessons obtained from establishing policies for natural disaster response held on Monday, he said that for that to happen, cooperation will be sought with the Rural Development Department and the Department of Relief and Resettlement. “I envisioned the nation to be one that can withstand the impact of climate change,” said U Hla Maung Thein. Moreover, he is…
Published on 5 December 2017
Speaking at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, Mr Masagos Zulkifli stressed Singapore’s commitment to fight climate change, given that the island-state is vulnerable to the environmental impact. He said that while Singapore has placed considerable emphasis on sustainable development in its early years of nation-building, “we want to do more to instill awareness of climate change among our citizens and…
Published on 26 November 2017 Global
In a trial at the reef’s Heron Island off Australia’s east coast, the researchers collected a large amount of coral spawn and eggs late last year, grew them into larvae and then transplanted them into areas of damaged reef. When they returned eight months later, they found the juvenile coral that had survived and grown, aided by underwater mesh tanks. “The success of this new…
Published on 23 November 2017 Timor-Leste
Against the backdrop of a freak storm this month in Malaysia and typhoon in Vietnam, one is reminded of the effects of climate change and the contrasting El Niño which hit Timor-Leste in 2015-2016. The 2015/2016 El Niño cycle was one of the most severe recorded. For the Asia Pacific region, the extreme weather event brought prolonged drought conditions that affected some 4.7 million people…
Published on 21 November 2017 Indonesia
The Southeast Asian nation is home to some 260 million people, fourth after China, India and the U.S. Nearly 90 percent of them identify as Muslim, according to 2010 census data. Indonesia also has some of the greatest expanses of rainforests, peatlands and mangroves — carbon-rich environments that are rapidly disappearing as industry expands. “The environmentally friendly mosque or ‘eco-mosque’ program is expected to instill…
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