HANOI: Rich nations have pledged billions of dollars to help Vietnam cut its coal consumption but are struggling to seal a deal with the Southeast Asian country ahead of a global climate summit next week, two sources familiar with the talks said. Vietnam would be the world’s second country toContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: Rich countries must move on from “empty slogans” when it comes to climate change and make progress in meeting funding commitments, a Chinese official said on Thursday (Oct 27) ahead of a new round of global climate talks in Egypt next month. “It is important to put forward targets,Continue Reading
Asia’s Great Climate Frontiers: The growing threat of climate change means that more ecosystems now find themselves on the brink of catastrophe. In the first part of a monthly series, CNA looks at the threat of desertification in Mongolia.Continue Reading
Asia’s Great Climate Frontiers: The growing threat of climate change means that more ecosystems now find themselves on the brink of catastrophe. In the first part of a monthly series, CNA looks at the threat of desertification in Mongolia.Continue Reading
SHANGHAI: Nearly a third of China’s land is now off-limits to development under a scheme known as the “ecological protection red line”, a senior official said at a news briefing on Monday (Sep 19), bringing the country in accord with global biodiversity targets. China first proposed its “red line” schemeContinue Reading
The authors from the study however stressed that due to big variations in periodic monsoon rainfall over Pakistan historically, it had been not possible to conclude that manmade warming added significantly to 60-day total rainfall amounts. “What we saw within Pakistan is exactly what climate projections happen to be predictingContinue Reading
BANGKOK: More than 2 decades after the Hollywood film The Beach has been shot at Thailand’s glittering Maya These types of, the kingdom’s Supreme Court on Tuesday (Sep 13) purchased officials to push ahead with environment rehabilitation work. The particular 2000 adventure dilemma, starring Leonardo The future actor, drewContinue Reading
Kurniawati’s company receives plastic from recycling centres across the greater Jakarta area – which has 30 million people – at its factory in Banten province outside the city. Then the company exports recycled plastic to European countries and also distributes it locally to be processed and used as packaging orContinue Reading
SHANGHAI: Though China is aiming to roll out record amounts of renewable capability this year as decarbonisation elsewhere stalls, economic challenges mean Beijing is unlikely to tackle rising fossil fuel consumption ahead of plan – and may hit a more painful maximum. Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged last year toContinue Reading
TAOYUAN, Taiwan: At a line of greenhouses close to 50km from Taiwan’s capital Taipei, vanilla farmer Tseng Tien-fu is installing a large number of solar panels, part of the island’s plan to meet its renewable energy goals without having to sacrifice scarce farmland. Tseng, who have exports most of hisContinue Reading