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There’re always ways to achieve better life and we need to struggle to achieve it

Now I’m highlighting how people are trying to develop better mechanism to address environmental issues, especially forest protection. I refer to recent hot issues on payment environmental services (PES) and reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).  Both of them are built to address environmental issues that currently not handled by mainstream development in many countries.

What actually the prospect of these mechanism? What’s it current status? Do they really benefits to forests and its livelihood of local indigenous people? read more »

I read a report published by Asian Development Bank (ADB) that emphasizing the impact of climate changes in Southeast Asia. It seems an effort of picturing how climate change issues will change more countries in the region -just like Stern’s report.  The report urges policy makers to take some actions including investing more resources in climate adaptation and mitigation as well as raising awareness of climate change impacts and risks.

The reports clearly states the impact of climate change on the region and its evidences:

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