Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Green Assembly
HOPE in a Changing Climate – the groundbreaking BBC documentary that shows how ecological damage can be reversed – may provide one of the key solutions to global warming and climate change, but only if it is adopted as a matter of urgency.
The 22-minute film shows how farming and over-grazing led to soil erosion on [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is responsible for damaging the lives of some of the poorest people in Asia, according to a report from Oxfam Australia.
The report, A Citizen’s Guide to the Greater Mekong Subregion, disputes ADB’s claims that its Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Program has led economic growth and poverty reduction in [...]
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Posted on October 15th, 2008 by Green Assembly
SINGAPORE ~ We are always hearing about CO2 emissions, and how many tonnes of CO2 a coal-fired power plant emits, and so on, but have you ever wondered what 1 tonne of CO2 actually looks like?
Well of course, being a gas, CO2 doesn’t actually look like anything, it’s invisible. But if you had 1 tonne [...]
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Posted on September 5th, 2008 by Green Assembly
INDONESIA ¬ Energy and the environment are among seven sectors covered by a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in Jakarta today by the Association of Southeast Nations (Asean) and the province of Guangdong, China.
The parties agreed to cooperate on agriculture, information and communications technology, trade and investment, tourism promotion, energy and environment, education, and [...]
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Posted on August 24th, 2008 by Green Assembly
STOCKHOLM ~ A partnership that will help provide clean drinking water and sanitation throughout Asia has been established.
Called WaterLinks, the partnership was formed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the International Water Association (IWA) and the Asian Development Bank(ADB) at World Water Week in Stockholm last week.
In a statement, IWA said WaterLinks’ [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is aware of the need to improve its environmental performance but may not be ready to adopt a green agenda “in the fullest sense”, the director general told Green Assembly in Bangkok last week.
Dr Surin Pitsuwan said that ASEAN is undergoing reconstruction and it is possible [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ Asia is lagging behind the rest of the world when it comes to being green, with only four Asian countries making it into the top 50 listed by the 2008 Environmental Performance Index (EPI).
Japan was ranked 21 in the world, followed by Malaysia (26), Taiwan (40) and Sri Lanka (40) according to the [...]
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