Climate Change
Climate change also a public health issue
-Malaysiakini.com- byDr Helmy Haja Mydin
The recent UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was organised on the background of the growing international acceptance that the environmental changes that modern society are witnessing are iatrogenic in nature and that corrective mechanisms should be put in place in order to reverse the trend of a gradually warming planet.
However, [...]
Biofuels can be sustainable, say less industrialised nations
-The Ecologist-
EU looking at the impact of land use changes on greenhouse gas emissions from moves to increase biofuel production
A group of developing countries has criticised the European Commission for its proposed method of calculating greenhouse gas emissions from biofuel production – fearing it could block out their imports.
The EU has a target for each [...]
Climate Change: Copenhagen Talks Create Hardly a Ripple in Malaysia
Inter Press Service by Anil Netto
Even if Prime Minister Najib Razak is in Copenhagen for the high-level segment of the U.N. conference on climate change, there has been precious little meaningful debate on the subject here in Malaysia.
Few Malaysians really understand the issues at stake, in part due to the lack of much meaningful analysis [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )40 per cent reduction of carbon emission by 2020
-NST-
PM Najib says Malaysia is committed to do its best in combatting climate change.
MALAYSIA will voluntarily slash by up to 40 per cent her carbon emission by 2020 compared with 2005 levels.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who made this commitment yesterday, said the cut was part of Malaysia’s contribution to global efforts to combat [...]
Malaysia Announces Conditional 40 Per Cent Cut In Emissions
(Bernama) — Malaysia has agreed to reduce its carbon dioxide emission to 40 per cent by the year 2020 compared to the 2005 levels subject to assistance from developed countries.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the cut was conditional on receiving the transfer of technology and adequate financing from the developed world.
“I would [...]
Climate deal: Will Copenhagen deliver?
-Malaysiakini.com, by Josie M Fernandez -
Will Copenhagen see celebrations at the end of this week as Kyoto in Japan did on Dec 11, 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol was signed? It was the first globally agreed treaty to reduce carbon emissions, the cause of global warming.
More that 100 heads of state and government leaders are [...]
Economist who sounded alarm dismisses climate summit as ‘ploy’
-The Ottawa Citizen-
The U.S. economist who predicted in 1972 that the world was facing environmental disaster has ridiculed the Copenhagen climate change summit and says only a series of global crises will incite the world to take concrete action.
“Copenhagen? I don’t take it seriously. The whole thing is a huge ploy,” said Dennis Meadows, co-author [...]
Report: KL a bit greener now
- The Star-
Malaysia has been ranked 50th by a non-governmental organisation which monitors countries on their initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and implement good climate policies — an improvement from last year’s 52nd position.
However, it still puts Malaysia behind Indonesia, which stands at 23rd, and Singapore at 40th. Indonesia rose from 27th position last [...]
Global protests demand action on climate change
-Malaysian Mirror-
COPENHAGEN – Hundreds of thousands of activists across the world on Saturday cranked up the heat on the problem-plagued UN climate talks in a bid to press for action instead of words.
With the main rally in Copenhagen, the centre of the Danish capital was in virtual lockdown for the six-kilometer (four-mile) march that would [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Najib Leaves For Copenhagen
(Bernama) — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak left for Copenhagen Tuesday night to attend the United Nations Conference On Climate Change starting Wednesday.
Najib who was accompanied by wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor left KL International Airport (KLIA) at 9.15pm on board the executive jet.
Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas [...]
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