tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38588714562269601752024-03-13T15:34:41.940+08:00Portal for Environmental Governance in AsiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1967125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858871456226960175.post-70289045261065560882014-04-29T01:19:00.000+08:002014-04-29T01:19:00.071+08:00Book: Environmental Transformations A Geography of the Anthropocene (24 April 2014)<h1 class="title" style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; color: #992233; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 2.154em; letter-spacing: -0.03em; line-height: 1.154em; margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: white;">Environmental Transformations</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white;">A Geography of the Anthropocene</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By <strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/mark_whitehead/" style="color: #222222; text-decoration: none;" title="search for all books by Mark Whitehead">Mark Whitehead</a></strong></span></h4>
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From the depths of the oceans to the highest reaches of the atmosphere, the human impact on the environment is significant and undeniable. These forms of global and local environmental change collectively appear to signal the arrival of a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. This is a geological era defined not by natural environmental fluctuations or meteorite impacts, but by collective actions of humanity.</div>
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<i style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">Environmental Transformations</i> offers a concise and accessible introduction to the human practices and systems that sustain the Anthropocene. It combines accounts of the carbon cycle, global heat balances, entropy, hydrology, forest ecology and pedology, with theories of demography, war, industrial capitalism, urban development, state theory and behavioural psychology. This book charts the particular role of geography and geographers in studying environmental change and its human drivers. It provides a review of critical theories that can help to uncover the socio-economic and political factors that influence environmental change. It also explores key issues in contemporary environmental studies, such as resource use, water scarcity, climate change, industrial pollution and deforestation. These issues are ‘mapped’ through a series of geographical case studies to illustrate the particular value of geographical notions of space, place and scale, in uncovering the complex nature of environmental change in different socio-economic, political and cultural contexts. Finally, the book considers the different ways in which nations, communities and individuals around the world are adapting to environmental change in the twenty-first century.</div>
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Particular attention is given throughout to the uneven geographical opportunities that different communities have to adapt to environmental change and to the questions of social justice this situation raises. This book encourages students to engage in the scientific uncertainties that surround the study of environmental change, while also discussing both pessimistic and more optimistic views on the ability of humanity to address the environmental challenges of our current era.</div>
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Chapter 1: Introduction – Geography in the Anthropocene<strong style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"> Section 1: Environmental Transformations</strong> Chapter 2: Resources – Oil and Water Chapter 3: Air – Science and the Atmosphere Chapter 4: Soil – The Political Ecology of Soil Degradation Chapter 5: Forests – Jungle Capitalism and the Corporate Environment Chapter 6: Cities – Sprawl and the Urban Planet <strong style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">Section 2: Living in the Anthropocene</strong> Chapter 7: Governing the Environment Chapter 8: Greening the Brain: Understanding and Changing Human Behaviour Chapter 9: Conclusions: Misanthropy, Adaptation and Safe Operating Spaces</div>
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Secretary for the Environment KS Wong today led a delegation to open the 2014 Macau International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition.</div>
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He toured the exhibition booths to see business opportunities brought by modern environmental technologies and green solutions for a sustainable city.</div>
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He met Macau’s Secretary for Transport & Public Works Lau Si-lo, Director of the Office for the Development of the Energy Sector Arnaldo Santos and other Macau officials.</div>
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Mr Wong inspected the waste automatic collection system in Areia Preta. Comprised of waste collection points, underground pipelines and garbage inlets, the system can collect 35 to 40 tonnes of garbage daily and serves about 15,800 households.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By <strong style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/chris_elliott/" style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; color: #222222; text-decoration: none; transition: width 0.5s;" title="search for all books by Chris Elliott">Chris Elliott</a></strong></span></h4>
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An essential addition to the Earthscan Planning & Installing series, <em style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning and Installing Micro-Hydro Systems</em> provides vital diagrams, pictures and tables detailing the planning and installing of a micro-hydro system, including information on the maintenance and economics once an installation is running. The book covers subjects such as measuring head and flow, ecological impacts, scheme layouts, practical advice, calculations and turbine choice. Archimedes screws are also covered in detail, as well as the main conventional choices relevant to small sites.</div>
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Micro-hydro refers to hydropower systems with a power rating of 100kW or less. A 100kW system will produce 100 standard units of electricity in one hour. These systems have been popular in some sparsely populated or mountainous countries for a number of years, but now new technology, less stringent regulation of grid connected generators and standardised turbine designs are encouraging more widespread interest in micro-hydro in the developed world.</div>
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The renewable energy sector is growing at a remarkable rate, and whilst much attention has so far focused on solar and wind technologies, Europe and elsewhere have great potential for generating power from small scale hydroelectric installations.</div>
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This book is aimed at site owners, designers and consultants who are looking to develop schemes in the micro-hydro scale – 5 to 100kW – although the concepts are applicable to smaller and larger schemes.</div>
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1. Energy in Context 2. Hydro Basics 3. The Weight of Water 4. Head and Flow 5. Ecological Considerations 6. Stages of Project Design 7. Initial Design 8. Predicting Power Output and Energy Capture 9. The Value of Power 10. Weirs and Impoundments 11. Intakes and Forebays 12. Spillways 13. Channels 14. Fish Passage Structures 15. Powerhouses 16. Screening 17. Penstocks 18. Sluices 19. Turbines 20. Mechanical Transmission 21. Archimedes Screw Turbines 22. Electrical Basics 23. Control Equipment 24. Generators 25. Grid Connection 26. Design for Flood 27. Assessing Historic Structures 28. Condition Monitoring 29. Commercial 30. Site Investigation 31. Temporary Works and Construction Methods 32. Accepting Machinery, Installation and Commissioning 33. Maintenance and Monitoring</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Politics of Knowledge and Global Biodiversity</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By <strong style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/alice_b.m._vadrot/" style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; color: #222222; text-decoration: none; transition: width 0.5s;" title="search for all books by Alice B.M. Vadrot">Alice B.M. Vadrot</a></strong></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Routledge – 2014 – 320 pages</span></div>
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The establishment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) points to the crucial role attributed to science and knowledge for the successful implementation of biodiversity politics by both scientists and policy-makers. With the increased importance of biodiversity in international politics, and in part inspired by the success the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has had in raising awareness of global warming, the call for an ‘IPCC for Biodiversity’ was successful.</div>
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This pioneering work is the first to examine IPBES in this way and is essential reading for researchers and scholars of International Relations, Environmental and Biodiversity Politics, Science-Policy Interfaces and Global Environmental Governance. It will also be of interest to political scientists and social scientists.</div>
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Introduction 1. How we view Nature now: the emergence of 'biodiversity' 2. A Novel Approach: 'epistemic selectivities' 3. Who needs a 'Science-Policy Interface' for Biodiversity 4. Conception and Birth of New International Body: the IPBES 5. The Manifold Narratives of the IPBES negotiations 6. Epistemic Selectivies: Knowledge and Institutional Change</div>
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Green summit urges less waste</h1>
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Public participation is crucial in achieving the "use less, waste less" vision, Acting Chief Executive Carrie Lam said today.</div>
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She was speaking at the Go Green, Waste Less summit, organised by the Environmental Campaign Committee and the Environmental Protection Department.</div>
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About 180 representatives from District Councils, local community groups and schools joined. Mrs Lam thanked them for their efforts to promote community participation and environmental work.</div>
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Secretary for the Environment KS Wong said the councils and local residents are key to promoting environmental protection in the community.</div>
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Since 2012, the department has given funding to District Councils to organise environmental programmes. The 2013-14 theme was Community Action on Waste – Use Less, Reuse, Recycle, featuring district-based education, promotional and recycling programmes, with more than 80,000 participants.</div>
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source: http://www.news.gov.hk/en/categories/environment/html/2014/04/20140411_173414.shtml</div>
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Park photo competition opens</h1>
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April 15, 2014</div>
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The Agriculture, Fisheries & Conservation Department launched a country park photography competition today.</div>
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The event is to promote country park visits and nature conservation.</div>
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The department encourages participants to share their country park experiences by taking photographs capturing the seasonal beauty and rich biodiversity in Hong Kong’s country parks.</div>
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Entries should be emailed to cpphotocomp2014@gmail.com during specified periods in each season.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Complexity and Sustainability</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white;">By <strong style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; border: 0px; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: width 0.5s; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/search/author/jennifer_wells/" style="-webkit-transition: width 0.5s; color: #222222; text-decoration: none; transition: width 0.5s;" title="search for all books by Jennifer Wells">Jennifer Wells</a></strong></span></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Routledge – 2012 – 345 pages</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.25269889831543px;">Complex dynamic system studies have been studied explicitly in the natural sciences, and most only implicitly throughout other fields. Yet much great social theory and philosophy is in fact based in complexity, and important concepts like postmodernism, risk, and collapse all stem from complexity. Six key terms are explored: nonlinearity, feedbacks, thresholds, hierarchies, emergence and self-organization, and dozens of related principles are discussed, with a focus on uncertainty, risk, vulnerability, learning, strategy, resilience, collapse and sustainability. The book surveys the role of these complexity principles in the natural sciences, social theory, transdisciplinary discourse, philosophy, and ethics, and shows how this complexity framework is a valuable lens for approaching the spectre of climate change and life in the Anthropocene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20.25269889831543px;">Foreward 1. Introduction 2. Elucidating Complexity Theories 3. Complexity in the Natural Sciences 4. Complexity in Social Theory 5. Towards Transdisciplinarity 6. Complexity in Philosophy: Complexification and the Limits to Knowledge 7. Complexity in Ethics 8. Earth in the Anthropocene 9. Complexity and Climate Change 10. American Dreams, Ecological Nightmares and New Visions 11. Complexity and Sustainability: Wicked Problems, Gordian Knots and Synergistic Solutions 12. Conclusion</span></div>
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25 pollution convictions recorded</h1>
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The Environmental Protection Department recorded 25 convictions for pollution offences in March.</div>
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Six were for air pollution, seven for noise, and 12 for waste disposal offences.</div>
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The heaviest fine for the month was $80,000, assessed against a company that used powered mechanical equipment not complying with permit conditions.</div>
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Tap water chief apologizes over contamination</h1>
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The chief of a tap water supplier embroiled in scandal after a contamination affected more than 2.4 million people in a northwestern Chinese city apologized to the public on Tuesday.</div>
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Yao Xin, chairman of the Lanzhou Veolia Water Company, bowed and expressed his apology at a news conference organized by the government of Lanzhou City, capital of Gansu Province, after the company reported excessive levels of carcinogenic compound benzene in its water on April 10.</div>
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Yao said the reason he had not apologized since then was that he and all his staff had been putting all their energy into identifying the cause of the contamination and building new water pipelines.</div>
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He said the company will launch a website in the first half of this year, and disclose water quality results on a monthly basis on the site.</div>
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On April 11, the city government warned residents not to drink tap water for 24 hours, after more than 10 times the national standard of benzene was found in the tap water. The pollutants are believed to have leaked from a pipeline of Lanzhou Petrochemical, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation, the country's largest oil company.</div>
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UN urges more efforts on sustainable development</h1>
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The United Nations observed the International Mother Earth Day on Tuesday with senior officials appealing for greater efforts to promote sustainable development and use of renewable energy sources.</div>
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In his message for the day, marked annually on April 22, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged worldwide changes in attitude and practice to curb the negative impact of human activity on the planet.</div>
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"From tropical deforestation to depleted ocean fisheries, from growing freshwater shortages to the rapid decline of biodiversity and increasingly polluted skies and seas in many parts of the world, we see the heavy hand of humankind," he said.</div>
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Reflecting on humankind's relationship with the planet, Ban said, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the soil that grows our food are part of a delicate global ecosystem that is increasingly under pressure from human activities.</div>
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As such, and with a growing population, everyone must recognize that consumption of the planet's resources is unsustainable. "We need a global transformation of attitude and practice. It is especially urgent to address how we generate the energy that drives our progress," he said.</div>
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The UN chief also emphasized that burning fossil fuels is the principal cause of climate change, which increasingly threatens prosperity and stability in all regions.</div>
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He said that action on climate change presents multiple opportunities to "reset our relationship" with Mother Earth and improve human well-being, especially for the poorest and most vulnerable.</div>
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"Sustainable energy for all can increase health, wealth and opportunity for billions of people, as can climate-smart agriculture, more efficient cities and better managed and protected forests," Ban said.</div>
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As a part of the world organization's efforts to drive home the importance of respecting and protecting the planet towards ensuring 'the future we want', the General Assembly is convening an interactive dialogue on "Harmony with Nature" to commemorate the international day.</div>
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Following a high-level segment Tuesday morning, member states, UN agencies and independent stakeholders will discuss in a series of roundtables ways to promote a balanced integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.</div>
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Meanwhile, General Assembly President John Ashe called on the UN family to promote sustainable development and the use of renewable energy sources throughout cities and communities.</div>
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"As we confront the unique sustainable development challenges of our time; our understanding of the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations must be rooted in the most up to date scientific information," Ashe said in his message.</div>
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Our global strategy must promote sound environmental ethics, and continually emphasize humanity's interconnectedness with nature, he noted.</div>
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In 2009, the UN General Assembly proclaimed April 22 as International Mother Earth Day, in a bid to achieve a just balance among the economic, social and environmental needs of present and future generations.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/pegasia</div>GARChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843629232190971521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858871456226960175.post-75796306958089541922014-04-24T23:47:00.000+08:002014-04-24T23:47:00.130+08:00Taiwan News: 水質監測資訊化 掌控廢水護河川 (22 April 2014)<b style="color: red; font-size: 21px; text-align: -webkit-center;"> 水質監測資訊化 掌控廢水護河川</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">保護家園河川水環境,除了靠環保單位對污染源的稽查管制及熱心志工巡守河川外,為強化對廢水排放的監控,環保署透過科學工具掌握污染排放資訊,積極推動大型排放源的廢水水質水量自動監測與即時連線,目前已有8處工業區提前完成設置,為污染源的管控跨出了一大步。經由監測發現排水道水質異常,環保局與工業區服務中心已合作查獲4家偷排業者,顯示廢水自動連續監測確實發揮監控警示的功能,有效阻止污染物的非法排放。 </span><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;"> 環保署表示,以往水污染管制需靠稽查人員到現場採樣,送至實驗室檢驗後才知道是否超過標準,不僅耗時費力,而且受限於時間人力,無法加重稽查頻率,讓不法業者有機可趁。設置自動連續監測設施,環保機關可藉由科學工具,進一步主動連續掌控並記錄污染源排放狀況,發掘不法及異常情形,嚇阻污染的發生。依照法令規定,應於7月14日前完成設置的36處工業區,目前已有桃園觀音工業區、新北產業園區、南投南崗工業區、彰濱工業區(鹿港區)、雲林科技工業區、高雄臨海工業區(臨海廠)、新竹科學工業園區及南部科學工業園區(臺南園區)8處超前完成,其餘28處現正進行測試,另有60家業者應該在今年12月底前完成設置作業。以桃園觀音工業區為例,今年1至3月,自動監測發現4次雨水下水道水質酸鹼值異常,服務中心發揮委託查證權,協助環保局查獲區內4家廠商違法排放廢水至雨水下水道,即為水質自動監測成效的展現。 </span><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;"> 環保署強調,全民共同監督參與為水質保護工作重要的一環,102 年經由民眾巡守檢舉查獲暗管高達174處,對於打擊不法,已發揮明顯成效。此外,為鼓勵民眾共同守護河川,在水污染防治法修正草案中,新增罰款的一部分可提撥作為檢舉獎金。相信在全民踴躍檢舉不法,積極參與水環境巡守及運用科學工具輔助下,可遏止非法排放,期待共同營造優質的水體環境。 </span><br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/pegasia</div>GARChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843629232190971521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858871456226960175.post-77111498747761469002014-04-24T23:19:00.000+08:002014-04-24T23:19:00.201+08:00China News: China facing severe environmental challenges (23 April 2014)<h1 id="title" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px; margin: 15px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; width: 655px;">
China facing severe environmental challenges</h1>
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China continues to face severe challenges in energy conservation and emission reduction, a senior lawmaker in charge of environment-related legislation said on Tuesday.</div>
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With only two years left to achieve targets set in the country's 12th five year plan (2011-2015), China needs to step up efforts to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 16 percent by the end of 2015, said Lu Hao, director of the National People's Congress (NPC) Environmental Protection and Resources Conservation Committee.</div>
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"This means China would have to cut its energy consumption per unit of GDP by at least 3.9 percent each year for the next two years to achieve that goal," Lu said on the sidelines of a bimonthly NPC session.</div>
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He said overcapacity high energy consumption and highly polluting industries, coupled with an imbalanced energy structure and the discharge of pollutants, has put enormous pressure on the country's energy conservation and emission reduction initiatives.</div>
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Insufficient monetary and policy incentives and unsatisfactory law enforcement also added to the challenges, he said.</div>
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April 22 is World Earth Day. Environmental problems have long been seen as serious topics and many parts of the planet have lost their true colors and natural landscapes. Following are some of the places which still manage to preserve their original characteristics.</div>
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China's five-year plan to boost environment protection</h1>
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China's next five-year plan will further boost ecological progress, said Xu Lin, a department head at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, on Wednesday.</div>
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People are paying much more attention to quality of life and have higher demands and the 13th Five-Year Plan will not ignore this, said Xu, who is head of the commission's department of development planning.</div>
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Most sectors have been doing well in meeting targets set by the 12th Five-Year Plan, Xu said.</div>
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However, progress on energy-saving and environmental protection have not been satisfactory according to an official evaluation on the 12th Five-Year Plan. But the NDRC, departments of the State Council and local governments are taking various measures to remedy this, Xu said.</div>
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Last Thursday, the commission announced it had started to formulate the 13th Five-Year Plan covering 2016 to 2020, with deepening reforms and economic growth at the forefront.</div>
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The five-year plan sets out an economic and social policy framework for the country, and needs to be approved by the National People's Congress, China's top legislature. The country's 12th Five-Year Plan period covers 2011 to 2015.</div>
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China's underground water quality worsens</h1>
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Nearly 60 percent of monitored areas of China had "very poor" or "relatively poor" underground water quality last year, a new report showed on Tuesday.</div>
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<span style="color: grey; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nearly 60 percent of monitored areas of China had "very poor" or "relatively poor" underground water quality last year.</span></div>
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Among 4,778 spots in 203 cities monitored by the Ministry of Land and Resources, underground water quality was ranked "relatively poor" in 43.9 percent of them and "very poor" in another 15.7 percent last year, said the annual report unveiled by the ministry.</div>
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According to China's underground water standards, water of relatively poor quality can only be used for drinking after proper treatment. Water of very poor quality cannot be used as source of drinking water.</div>
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The result means 59.6 percent of underground water could not be directly drunk last year, up from 57.4 percent for 2012.</div>
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On a year-on-year basis, water quality became worse in 754 monitored spots, but improved in only 647 areas.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;">梅雨季節即將到來,除易造成積水,氣溫也回暖,形成孳生病媒蚊的有利條件。為防範登革熱疫情,環保署與衛生福利部於今(22)日共同召開「103年第一次登革熱流行疫情處理協調會報」,環保署環境衛生及毒物管理處處長袁紹英表示,將於4月底至6月推動全國登革熱孳生源複式動員檢查,請民眾動手清理居家戶內外孳生登革熱病媒蚊的容器及場所,各機關及地方政府持續以「清除再清除,檢查再檢查」方式,落實巡查清理,對於戶外未落實清除孳生源者,將依「廢棄物清理法」相關規定予以處分。 </span><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;"> 環保署表示,環保單位依據衛生福利部「登革熱防治工作指引」,以「清除孳生源為主,緊急噴藥為輔」防治原則,協助衛生機關辦理病媒蚊孳生源清除及噴藥工作。統計103年1月至3月地方環保機關動員孳生源清除達28萬人次,清除容器87萬餘個,空地清理8千4百餘處,廢輪胎清理1萬9千餘個,告發225件。為因應本年度登革熱疫情,環保署持續辦理複式動員計畫,透過村里互檢及地方環保局複查,動員村里民眾及志義工進行家戶內外孳生源清除,加強宣傳登革熱防治,並辦理不預警抽查,督促各直轄市、縣(市)環保局執行登革熱病媒蚊孳生源清除,並加強稽查處分,以落實公權力執行。 </span><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 27px; text-align: justify;"> 為強化孳生源清除,環保署籲請全民動員維護我們的家園清淨,對於可清理的登革熱病媒蚊孳生源則立即清理,難以清理之處,可至環保署「清淨家園顧厝邊綠色生活(EcoLife)網」通報,或撥打全國免付費公害陳情專線0800-066666檢舉,政府將派員儘速清除及查處,對於未落實清除登革熱孳生源者,依「廢棄物清理法」相關規定予以處分。</span><br />
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<span style="color: grey; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Photos of a wild panda were captured for the second time by infrared cameras at Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area in Sichuan Province. The photo is the first one recording a wild panda eating. [Photo/Chinanews.com]</span></div>
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Photos captured by infrared cameras at Huanglong Scenic and Historic Interest Area in southwest China's Sichuan Province show a wild panda sighting in the area, the second time that an adult wild giant panda was spotted in the area within half a year, according to the natural reserve area's management administration.</div>
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Staffers from Huanglong Nature Reserve collected the data captured by three infrared cameras installed there.</div>
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A total of 66 photos recording a panda eating were captured at night on Jan 21, and another 21 pictures were shot at noon on Feb 26 as a panda passed by the camera.</div>
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Besides pictures, a one-minute video clip showing a panda passing by on Feb 16 was also available.</div>
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It was the first time a wild panda was photographed eating in the region, according to the reserve.</div>
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Researchers at the reserve said they couldn't confirm whether the panda spotted was the same one, and a further investigation is still underway.</div>
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The reason photos of wild pandas can be captured frequently in the area is that more pandas are being attracted to the park due to the improved ecological environment in the area over the past three decades.</div>
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Images of a wild panda were captured in the region last September for the first time in over 30 years.</div>
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source :http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2014-04/23/content_32179187.htm</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">NAGPUR: Eight months after it was approached to investigate poaching of tigers in the region, the Central Bureau of Investigation, took over the on Friday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The state government had written to CBI director Ranjit Sinha on July 26, 2013 requesting for probe in the poaching of tigers. State notification to this effect was published in August last week. The CBI started collecting relevant papers from September.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"Finally, the probe has been handed over to the CBI officials from Navi Mumbai who were in the city on Friday," confirmed principal chief conservator of forests (wildlife) Sarjan Bhagat.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Bhagat added the probe was handed over to CBI last year but Central government notification was issued in March first week.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In August last year, the CBI was given a mandate to probe three tiger poaching cases. The arrest of 21 poachers and tiger skin traders revealed that it was not just three tigers but nearly 25. Forest officials have reached a figure of 16 so far.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">When asked, APCCF for wildlife (east) SS Mishra said the CBI probe will expose national and cross-border links of organized poachers. "The CBI probe will have no affect on the ongoing court cases. We will continue to fight them," Mishra added.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">However, official sources said the list of wanted poachers has touched 56. Of these 21 have been arrested and 35 remain absconding. The CBI will help the forest department to nab absconders. "We will now work jointly," said Mishra.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">9 poachers nabbed</strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Nagpur: Nine hardened wildlife poachers were nabbed inside the Umred-Karhandla Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday night. Two of their accomplices managed to escape. Divisional forest officer SB Bhalavi said that the accused had sneaked into the park on seven bicycles and two motorcycles with an intention to poach wild animals. A dozen weapons like spears, sickles, and knives used to kill and skin animals, besides huge thick nets were confiscated from them. "The nets could have trapped not only herbivores but also carnivores," said Bhalavi. P</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">source from: </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/flora-fauna/CBI-takes-over-tiger-poaching-probe/articleshow/33638206.cms</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/pegasia</div>GARChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843629232190971521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858871456226960175.post-54717465375196170632014-04-22T11:41:00.000+08:002014-04-22T11:41:00.075+08:00India News: Gautala sanctuary to get cameras for tracking animals (9 April 2014)<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 30px;">Gautala sanctuary to get cameras for tracking animals</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">AURANGABAD: The Gautala Autrumghat wildlife sanctuary in Aurangabad district, a 250 sq km expanse of dense forest, will be first in the Marathwada region to get cameras to track the movement of animals and to keep a hawk eye on poaching activities.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The wildlife division has sent a proposal seeking 12 trap cameras for the sanctuary, which will also help in the bi-annual animal census activity. The trap cameras will have motion sensors and night vision to capture the image of any wildlife passing in front of it. The cameras are waterproof, heat resistant and have global positioning system (GPS).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Such cameras have been installed in Tadoba Andhari tiger reserve and other wildlife sanctuaries of the state, but will be used for the first time in the Marathwada region. The Gautala Autrumghat sanctuary, located on the boundary of the Aurangabad and Jalgaon districts, was notified in 1997.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sunil Ohol, deputy conservator of forest (wildlife), said that the proposal has been sent to the forest division in Nashik and some permissions were still to be granted by the state government. The wildlife department expects to receive camera during next census scheduled for May.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">An official said, "The cameras will help during the annual census exercise as they provide visual record of the animals. As the cameras capture the movement of animals within the sanctuary, it also helps protect and track the animals. Moreover, the cameras help keep a watch in possible poaching activity."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In addition to this, the forest department has also initiated a study of impact of human presence on animals, as vehicles use the national highway (NH-211) located near the forest area. It has carried out various development plans within the sanctuary to boost ecological activities and tourism.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Range forest officer R A Nagapurkar said that a four-member team of experts from Cohort For Bio-Research, Jalgaon has started a study of the impact of traffic and noise disturbances on wildlife, possible movement of animals and connection between major water and food resources. The team would submit its recommendations in the report likely to be ready in the next couple of months.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The RFO added that an information centre has been established at Hivarkheda, where the sanctuary starts. "The centre has the information of all the species found in the sanctuary. In future, guides would be appointed," he added. 10 locals have already undergone training to be guides under the eco-development scheme of the joint forest management committee (JFMC).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Fire-fighting equipment has been procured to tackle any wild fires, but no such instances have been reported in last two years. "The staff has been trained to deal with fires and adjoining villages have been alerted to notify fires. Fire extinguishers, helmets and jackets will be stored in a room," he added.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Four villages, Hivarkheda, Bildari, Haraswadi and Junona, have been identified to reduce the impact on forest area. "Smokeless stoves and solar cookers have been provided to villagers, street lights operating on solar energy have been installed. Majority of the houses have solar system capable of lighting 2-3 bulbs," Nagapurkar said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Measures have been taken to conserve water. About 35 artificial and an equal number of natural water ponds have been built provide for animals. About 12 cement check dams have also been constructed to conserve water.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The historical sites of Gautam Rishi temple and Sita Nani have been developed to attract visitors and affordable residential arrangements have been made. Four rest houses and a dormitory can accommodate around 70 people. The rooms can be booked through the wildlife office located in Aurangabad. "The bamboo hut is entirely eco-friendly and has been set up at the edge of a mountain for a great view," he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Adequate safety arrangements have been put in place for the tourists with nakas and watch towers, with one guard and two forest workers stationed especially during night hours. Another chowk has been created at a central location of the sanctuary.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Sign boards are placed at significant places indicating directions to spots about 12 pagodas have been constructed for resting and sight seeing purposes.</span><br />
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<tr><td>Over the last two decades, there is a growing demand for an integration of corporate sustainability criteria into supply chain management. Businesses are looking for ways to address sustainability, from product design, manufacturing, logistics to procurement, in order to meet the requirements. A challenge, consequently a new business opportunity.<br />
In this upcoming event, Mr Takahashi will share Ricoh’s works to minimise environmental impact of its supply chain management process, and the latest office eco-friendly technologies to help businesses go green while maintaining operational efficiency and business goals.</td></tr>
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BANGALORE: There will be a serious risk of severe ill-health in the country soon. The risk of mortality and morbidity is also going to go up during periods of extreme heat, a major consequence of the ongoing climate change. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Climate change is certain to impact human health adversely. Many diseases which were only heard of will now start affecting the community at large," said H N Ravindranath, Centre for Sustainable Technologies, Indian Institute of Science. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Warming, drought, flooding and precipitation are some of the very obvious changes which will be visible in the years to come, said experts gathered at the deliberation session at the Divecha Centre for Climate Change, IISC recently. Experts discussed the findings of the Inter- governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II (WG-II) findings released on March 31 this year. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />They said that local changes in temperature and rainfall have caused some change in the distribution of some water-borne illnesses and with reduced overall food production, the Indian population will only be more vulnerable. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"Climate change will lead to increase in ill-health in many regions, especially in the developing countries with low income," said Aromar Revi, director, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore. And to prepare for such 'risks' countries need to introduce a new set of policies to supplement the existing policies, felt experts. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />"But that calls for a huge funding. The big question is where the money will flow in from considering that developing countries need to build an extra set of policies to mitigate risks," said Purnamita Dasgupta of the Institute for Economic Growth, New Delhi. <br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Many terrestrial, freshwater and marine species have shifted their geographic ranges, seasonal activities, migration patterns, abundance and species interaction in response to the ongoing climate change.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/pegasia</div>GARChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843629232190971521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858871456226960175.post-40168822354305172482014-04-21T11:31:00.000+08:002014-04-21T11:31:00.022+08:00WOrld News: Carbon cuts possible for manageable warming: Experts (7 April 2014)<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 30px;">Carbon cuts possible for manageable warming: Experts</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">BERLIN: The world, acting urgently, can curb carbon emissions enough to avert worst-case scenarios for climate change, UN experts said on Monday as envoys met in Berlin to weigh the options for action. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"The literature here shows that deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 2 C... remain possible," said Ottmar Edenhofer, who helped oversee the latest volume in a report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">But achieving this goal, Edenhofer warned, will require a break from today's relentlessly upward trend in emissions. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It will entail "challenging technological, economic, institutional and behaviour change," he said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Envoys and scientists from the panel's 195 member countries are meeting after the IPCC issued its starkest-ever warning about the perils of a ravaged climate system for future generations. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The risk of conflict, hunger, floods and mass displacement increase with every upward creep of the mercury, the IPCC said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"The impacts of climate change will leave no part of the world untouched and unaffected," IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri told Monday's opening session. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The upcoming volume is the last major piece of the Fifth Assessment Report -- the first overview by the Nobel-winning climate panel since 2007. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The product of four years' work by over 200 experts, it aims at providing governments with the latest scientific knowledge and informing the struggling effort to forge a worldwide pact on climate change by the end of next year. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">A draft summary of the report, seen by AFP, expresses no preferences for how to tame the problem, nor does it state what a safe level of warming would be. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">But it says there is a 15-year window for affordable action to safely reach the UN's target of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial times. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The goal remains attainable if "all countries" act quickly to ease carbon emissions, it says. "Delaying mitigation through 2030 will increase the challenges." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In raw terms, global carbon emissions of 49 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2010 will have to be pegged to 30-50 billion tonnes in 2030. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Most scenarios that meet the 2 C target entail a "tripling to nearly a quadrupling" in the share of energy from renewable and nuclear sources and the capture and storage of emissions from fossil fuel plants, according to the draft. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Government representatives and scientists will go through the summary line by line over the next few days. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"In the plenary, all countries can voice their concerns and all of them are heard," said co-chairman Youba Sokona. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"In the end, it is scientific accuracy that decides." The summary will be publicly released in the German capital on Sunday, and the full 2,000-page report -- authored by scientists and not subject to this week's scrutiny -- will be released shortly afterwards. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Green group Friends of the Earth International said the science demanded a reduction in the use of fossil fuels, coupled to a massive investment in renewable alternatives. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"So far, world leaders have sorely lacked the political will to make the shift to low-carbon societies," it said. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Oxfam, for its part, said climate change would have a severe impact on hunger. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"It is estimated there could be 25 million more malnourished children under the age of five in 2050 compared to a world without climate change - the number of all under-fives in the US and Canada combined," it said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">source from: </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/global-warming/Carbon-cuts-possible-for-manageable-warming-Experts/articleshow/33405099.cms</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/pegasia</div>GARChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843629232190971521noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3858871456226960175.post-56993520630464834392014-04-20T11:38:00.000+08:002014-04-20T11:38:00.091+08:00India News: Parties unconcerned about wildlife: Animal welfare body (7 April 2014)<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 30px;">Parties unconcerned about wildlife: Animal welfare body</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">IMPHAL: People for Animals (PFA) Thoubal, an animal welfare organization, is unhappy that none of the political parties have mentioned animal conservation in their manifestos for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Almost all the poll manifestos have omitted the issue of wildlife uplift in the state, one of the PFA members lamented.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Issues like employment, right, minority welfare, irrigation, power and integrity are being given due importance as those are meant for making human lives better. People are in the habit of forgetting that for a good and healthy life, a good habitat is a necessity, a PFA statement read.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"We should remember that more than 50,000 rare species are hunted or killed annually in the state. In a few years, hundreds of species would be extinct from the state and this would affect the ecology and life sustaining capacity of the state," the PFA said in a statement.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Manipur experienced early and a hotter summer this year and this is not a normal phenomena. "Human life can only sustain in the areas where different species of wild animals and plants thrive. Ways of conserving them is one of the most important agendas which the political parties should put up in their manifestos," the PFA said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Some parties, however, spare only a few words on wildlife, environment and ecology, which only indicate the lack of political will towards the issues.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">It is unfortunate that nothing on 'Sangai' (Brow-Antlered deer) has been mentioned in the manifestos. Sangai, the state animal, is incorporated in Scheduled I (the most endangered animal of the country) under the Wildlife Protection Act. Sangai should be a major agenda in the manifestos and the political parties should chalk out plans to conserve these animals more effectively, it said and added that they should also pledge to enact new schemes to protect the animal.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"We expect the manifestoes to touch upon points like modernization of forest department, implementation of new laws and regulations to control poaching, hunting, over harvesting and illegal export of wildlife from the state," the PFA said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Priority should be given to improvement of the living standards of the people living in and around national parks, sanctuaries and forest areas of the valley and hills to minimize human trespassing on forest areas.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">source from: </span><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Parties-unconcerned-about-wildlife-Animal-welfare-body/articleshow/33380710.cms?</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://feeds.feedburner.com/pegasia</div>GARChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04843629232190971521noreply@blogger.com0