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Climate scientists are wary about linking a single event to climate change, though there are significant signs this is starting to change. There is near unanimity, however, that rising carbon emissions are causing warmer temperatures and an atmosphere packing more energy and moisture — and the link between this and the sharp rise in the frequency and ferocity of weather disasters charted over the past…

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/09/11/indonesia-aims-high-with-blue-carbon-potential.html Source: The Jakarta Post | 11 September 2017

Hurricane Irma, one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, is hurtling its way through the Caribbean and will reach the Florida coastline today, where 5.6 million people have been ordered out of Irma's path. But in its wake, the hurricane has devastated communities and left at least 21 dead. It follows tropical cyclones that have ripped across other parts of the world…

The following link will take you to INQUIRER.net: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/928992/disaster-resilient-evacuation-center-set-up-in-bolognan-eastern-samar Source: Inquirer | 8 September 2017

Environment ministers at the first Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit in Bangkok, Thailand, organized jointly by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP or UN Environment) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), discussed measures to improve resource efficiency and combat pollution. Ministers emphasized the need for concerted action on environmental issues including waste management, transboundary pollution and marine litter. At the close…

“With the conservation and management strategies that our respective countries are implementing, I encourage convergence of our research and development efforts for sustainable region-wide mangrove conservation,” Cimatu said in his keynote address at the 2nd Asean Mangrove Congress held in Manila from September 5 to 7. Cimatu said that convergence in mangrove research and development is the key to protecting the region against the devastating…

The floating fish farm, being developed by the world's largest oil rig builder, Keppel Offshore and Marine, features extensive automation in the feeding, health-monitoring and cleaning of fish in both underwater and above-water facilities. Although the design is still at the conceptual stage, it demonstrates how farming, an activity normally associated with manual labour and old-fashioned implements, can be engineered into a highly efficient and…

The $35 billion food giant behind brands like M&Ms, Skittles, and Twix on Wednesday launched its “Sustainability in a Generation” plan, aiming to reduce the carbon footprint of its business and supply chain by more than 60% by 2050. “We’ve been increasingly worried about overall progress on the big issues, whether that’s climate change or solving poverty,” Barry Parkin, Mars’ chief sustainability officer, told Business…

According to the 2016 Climate Risk Index, Myanmar is the second most vulnerable country in the world to the effects of climate change. The intensity and regularity with which cyclones make landfall have increased with every year, with the delta region affected by tropical storms and the dry zone impacted by debilitating droughts. Researchers at the Center for Climate System Research at Columbia University, in…

In southwest Japan in July, at least 18 people were killed and hundreds stranded after unusually heavy rains caused massive floods and landslides. The common refrain everywhere is that nobody had seen or expected anything like this. But as climate change aggravates hydro-meteorological events, these catastrophes are the new norm. The only lasting response is to cut greenhouse gases and contain global warming, but meanwhile…

As the 2016 chair of the Group of 77 – the largest coalition of developing nations at the United Nations – the Kingdom of Thailand made its primary mission to enhance cooperation between north and south, as well as strengthen south-south cooperation. This exchange of resources, technology and knowledge between developing countries, often referred to as the Global South, can be complementary to achieving the…

He has since raised this discovery of IP identity and responsibility to involve millions of others. He became an activist and in 1999 co-organized a congress that launched AMAN (Aliansi Masyarajat Adat Nusantara, or Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago), a mass-based organization that today has over 115 local chapters and 21 regional chapters throughout the country’s 34 provinces. Collectively, AMAN represents over 17 million…

As scientists who study climate risks and how societies can respond, we have been jolted to think hard about our best understanding of why disasters like these occur, how a changing climate cranks up the odds and what we might do differently. The answer, for scientists and everyone else who has been watching, is not to say definitively and dismissively, “this is the result of…

But what happens in Texas will not remain in Texas. Washington vs Beijing and Brussels Despite all the headlines and heartbreaking images, Hato and Harvey are just a glimpse of what we must face in the future. As the challenges of extreme weather are rapidly escalating, efforts to contain global collateral damage are failing. Risks have escalated dramatically since June 1, when President Trump announced…

Houston may have broken the US rainfall records, but lost in the dramatic worldwide coverage of Texas has been the plight of tens of millions of people across Asia and Africa who are also counting the human cost of equally intense storms in which months of rain has fallen in just a few hours. One of the heaviest monsoons recorded in the past 30 years…

The BYO—which stands for ‘bring your own’—campaign calls on Singaporeans to bring their own bags and containers when buying food and drinks, with the aim of cutting down on the amount of discarded take-away plastic. Singapore threw away 822,000 tonnes of plastic last year, out of which only seven per cent was recycled, according to data from the National Environment Agency. Although plastic can be…

resize-20170829 7B8C677FFAAD486FA93378101FDA56CA The honorees were hailed “for catalyzing a global community solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society in the field of journalism,” according to The Climate Reality Project president Kenneth Berlin and country manager Rodne Galicha. "In this period of climate denial and the challenge to communicate climate science and solutions to the masses, we…

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/opinion/hurricanes-climate-capitalists-wealth-.html Source: The New York Times | 31 August 2017

"Beginning in 2017, we now are developing the offshore aquaculture in Sabang, Aceh province, the southern waters of Java Island, and the Karimun Java Island in Central Java province," the Ministrys Secretary of Aquaculture Directorate General Tri Hariyanto noted after delivering a speech at a seminar in Jakarta on Tuesday. The secretary explained that although Indonesia has vast waters, stretching from the islands of Sumatra…