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World Kudos For Malaysia In Keeping Sabah Coal-Free
-The Star- (Bernama) — Malaysia has received a pat on the back from the international community for its decision not to use coal to generate energy in Sabah, a move that will open the doors to clean power options in the state. World Bank Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Prof Daniel [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Singapore presses Indonesia to act on forest fires
-AFP- SINGAPORE — Singapore on Thursday urged Indonesia to take action on forest fires on Sumatra island as air pollution reached health-threatening levels in the neighbouring city-state. “It is a matter of very serious concern as a health hazard that has not just affected Singapore but also the southern part of West Malaysia,” the Ministry [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sabah joins global parties for a cleaner world
-Free Malaysia Today- By Queville To KOTA KINABALU: When 10/10/10 comes around next Sunday, environmentally conscious Sabah will pitch in on a global effort to cut carbon emissions. Local environmental group, Green SURF (Sabah Unite to Re-Power the Future), has organised a “beach clean-up party” in a worldwide effort to create awareness on climate change [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Fashion fast
-The Star- A group of women are eliminating new apparel for one year. COULD you go a full year without buying new clothes? Impossible, you say? But that’s exactly what a bunch of ladies intend to do. In the movement dubbed The Great American Apparel Diet, they pledged to not buy any new togs for [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 to be [...]
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 recession, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )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 1,600 fruit trees [...]
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