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  • Indonesia plants bamboo to fight climate change

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 11, 2018

    By: The Jakarta Post   Cultivating bamboo could help Indonesia mitigate the impacts of climate change, an Indonesian environmental scientist said during a side event of the United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany. At the event, Arief Rabik, founder of the Bambu Lestari Foundation, said planting bamboo was a very effective way to rehabilitate […]

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  • Saving tuna-rich Philippine Rise seen to boost PH food security

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 11, 2018

    By: SEARCA FANSSEA The Department of Agriculture (DA) is pushing for the conservation of Philippine Rise, an undersea region east of Luzon, for it to be a rich food source for Filipinos. “We are advocating the declaration of the Philippine Rise as a Protected Food Supply Exclusive Zone,” Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol said in his […]

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  • When There Are No More Fish

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 3, 2018

    By: Eater Climate change, drought, and development have devastated Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, which feeds millions across Southeast Asia.Climate change, drought, and development have devastated Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake, which feeds millions across Southeast Asia. Talk to a fisherman anywhere in the world and it won’t be long before you’ll hear the tales: the first […]

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  • The global cooling crisis: What Southeast Asia can do about it

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on December 27, 2017

    By Eco-Business.com From keeping medicines and vaccines useable to allowing food to be stored and transported over long distances, cooling technologies such as refrigerators and air conditioners have improved human health, productivity and prosperity over the past century. A projected surge in their use over the next few decades, however, also poses a significant environmental […]

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  • Penang, Malaysia Mayor to be the next director of UN Habitat

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on December 22, 2017

    Photo Credit: (Christopher Swope), Citiscope On December 20, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres informed the United Nations General Assembly of his intention to appoint Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif as the next Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). The decision came after a series of consultations with the Chairpersons of the regional […]

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  • Semporna leads the way in coral reef protection

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on December 21, 2017

    Source: SEARCA’s Knowledge Center on Climate Change KOTA KINABALU- Semporna is leading the way in adopting the Coral Bleaching Early Response Plan to protect its rich coral reef ecosystem. Semporna district officerDrChacho Bulah recently launched the plan during the six-day Semporna Marine Eco Week 2017, which ended on Dec 2. The plan aims to monitor […]

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