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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 [...]
Making sense of COP15
-The Nut Graph-THERE is already a flurry of heated debate and innovative awareness campaigns in the run-up to the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference, which will be held in December 2009 in Denmark. Expect more as government officials, scientists, civil society organisations and the media converge in Copenhagen for what is expected [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )South-East Asia among ‘most vulnerable’ to climate change
(Earth Times)Bangkok – With 80 per cent of South-east Asia’s 563 million people living within 100 kilometres of the coastline, the region is among the “most vulnerable” to climate change, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned Monday. South-East Asia, responsible for about 12 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions, can expect to see [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New gloomy findings on global warming
BY MARTIN KHOR– Last week’s gathering of 2,500 scientists found the climate change situation is much worse than previously reported. They called on politicians to act quickly and decisively.
WITH the world in economic recession, there is a temptation to downgrade or sideline climate change. That would be a great mistake.
However serious the [...]
Japanese firm in tree-planting project
Kota Kinabalu: Japanese company, Fujitsu Group Malaysia, together with several organisations embarked on a tree-planting project at its Eco Forest Park in Kinarut, near here, from Nov 28 to Dec 1.
The project kicked off with 31 members of the Fujitsu Group from Japan and 19 members of the Advantest Corporation on Thursday, while [...]
Safoda works with Ovas to develop Kinarut Eco Park
Japanese help to further develop Eco Park
Kota Kinabalu: The Sabah Forestry Development Authority (Safoda) is collaborating with Japanese non-governmental organisation (NGO), Overseas Volunteer Activity Support (Ovas), to further develop the Eco-Forest Park at Kinarut.
Safoda will be working with Ovas, with the support of the Greenery Fund of Japan, to plant [...]
River Bank Development Drive Fireflies Away
Humans and light pollution blamed as fireflies disappear
Retreat drawing new attention from scientists
BAN LOMTUAN, Thailand – Thousands of fireflies fill the branches of trees along the Mae Klong River, flashing on and off in unison – relentless and silent, two times a second, deep into the night.
Nobody knows why.
The fireflies, all males, sit on the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Malaysia was in contravention of the Basel Convention
Dewan Rakyat: Poser on import, export of scheduled waste
A BACKBENCHER has called on the government to reveal the licences issued to companies allowed to export or import scheduled waste. Datuk Dr James Dawos Mamit (BN-Mambong) said Malaysia was in contravention of the Basel Convention which disallowed the export or import of scheduled waste.
“Malaysia is a [...]
Singapore forced to cooperate with M’sia and Indonesia
Lee Kuan Yew ponders nuclear energy option
SINGAPORE, Nov 5 — Could nuclear energy be the solution to Singapore’s search for a viable source of alternative energy in the long term?
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew said as much yesterday when he described nuclear energy as a realistic, viable alternative to oil and gas for producing electricity.
The [...]
ASEAN warming up for Nuclear energy
–> Asians warming up to nuclear energy
The ‘International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sent a team of nuclear experts to the Philippines early this year to determine, at the invitation of the government, the feasibility of reviving the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant or of building a new one.
It was the third country in Southeast [...]
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