Posts Tagged ‘Climate Change’

Climategate: even skeptics win, deforestation still happen

Posted in Forest on December 3rd, 2009 by iip – 3 Comments

Climategate could be the hottest climate debate which will undermine the global effort of earth cooling. Climate skeptics may not believe on man-made global warming, thus buzzing scientist’s hacked email emphasizing the poor quality of scientific works that was done. Will Climategate attract more politicians, activists and campaigners in the Copenhagen meeting?

Wait, climategate is  in the centre of climate science, not on the area where greenhouse gasses are released: Sumatran forests. Recent news is coming from the green movement to stop deforestation from paper industry. They have been campaigning for years, resulting more paper consumers leaving papers from unsustainable forest.  Here some consumers from fashion industry that declaring it self not to use paper product from unsustainable forest of Indonesia –especially in the island where peatland forests restoring huge carbon:

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Global warming disaster by Booker

Posted in Earth on November 19th, 2009 by iip – 2 Comments

real-global-warming-disaster Our global ecosystem is getting hotter, as well as people who always working to find out how to stop and how to adapt the changing climate. There are people who stand to criticize on how the issue of global warming is getting louder and gain more political attentions throughout the world.

You may find some global warming pessimist readings in your most-favorite book shop –one of them is written by Christopher Booker, an UK journalist.

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Indonesia to make 26pct cut in carbon emission

Posted in Earth on November 9th, 2009 by iip – 5 Comments

At the G20’s last summit, Indonesia announced decision to lower carbon emission level voluntarily. The target of 26 percent decrease, as explained by the Deputy III for Improving Conservation of natural resources and Environmental Degradation Control Environment, Masnellyarti Hilman –was based on calculations of emission reduction from mixed energy and renewable energy including geothermal energy, transfer functions of forests (LULUCF / Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry) and peat lands use management.

Is this announcement really significant for industrial countries, annex-1 countries or it just political movement  from developing countries to heat up the next UN Climate meeting in Copenhagen?

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