7 facts and findings about REDD

October 8th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Forest - (0 Comments)

Reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is one of recent global mechanisms that expected by developing countries to help in conserving forests, combat climate change as well as eradicate poverty.

Public may aware on deforestation and its impact on climate change. But, halting the deforestation process isn’t simply as people reducing plastic consumption.

Scientists, negotiators as well as activists are searching best ways and practice to address three principles: carbon effectiveness, cost efficiency, and equity issues on both investors and beneficiaries.  I list some interesting figures around reducing emission from deforestation below: (more…)

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Tips for conserving water

October 6th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (0 Comments)

Did you know there are about 1.2 billion people live in river basins with absolute water scarcity? And a further 1.5 billion people suffer from inadequate access to water because of a lack of infrastructure. The numbers are taken from World Development Report 2008 published by the World Bank. Some areas face the greatest water shortages such Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

Because of climate change, there are more frequent droughts and increasing wa

ter scarcity throughout the world. People in developing countries

providing food from agriculture must deal with climate change. And what happen to people in more developed countries? Do they really aware on water issues?

If so, how they deal with water consumption? Alex leigh has tips to save water consumption as well as cut its bill. I summarized it for you:

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Global warming, early spring and silent spring

October 4th, 2011 | Posted by iip in Earth - (0 Comments)

Having reading Goddard’s article on Watts Up With That? then I begin to explore the relevant events on tropical country such Indonesia.

Goddard’s highlights on the recent early spring information, weather and its maps and some other claims.  By the way, do you still remember on the great book of Silet Spring? This book was credited as 100 books that changed the world.  Discovers Magazine named the books as 25 great science books  all the time. Thanks to the author, Rachel Carson, facilitated people alerting on the danger of chemical on the ecosystems.

Silent spring showed  uncarefull material usage affected the birds reproduction and thus changed their population. In the bigger case, the material related to green house gases are heating the earth and thus changes the world climate.

Below are the claims on the effects of climate change on Indonesia:

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