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Indonesia Baru Tenar di Buku Panduan Wisata
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...not to mention the banned '1080' laced the ground and water under those green canopy...
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New Zealand was a friend to Middle Earth, but it's no friend of the earth
Lord of the Rings country trades on its natural beauty, but emissions have risen 22% since it signed up to Kyoto
Fred Pearce
Thursday November 12 2009
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2009/nov/12/new-zealand-greenwash
As the world prepares for the Copenhagen climate negotiations next month, it is worth checking out the greenwash that has followed the promises made 12 years ago when the Kyoto protocol was signed.
A surprising number of countries have succeeded in raising their emissions from 1990 levels despite signing up to reduce them. They include a bundle of countries in the European Union, which collectively agreed to let some nations increase their emissions while others (mainly Britain and Germany) cut theirs. Step forward Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece ? all with emissions up by more than a quarter.
Then there are the US and Australia, which both reneged on the protocol after signing it. And Canada, which never reneged but still has emissions up by a quarter (worse than the US) and shows no sign of contrition or of being called to account by the other signatories.
But my prize for the most shameless two fingers to the global community goes to New Zealand, a country that sells itself round the world as "clean and green".
New Zealand secured a generous Kyoto target, which simply required it not to increase its emissions between 1990 and 2010. But the latest UN statistics show its emissions of greenhouse gases up by 22%, or a whopping 39% if you look at emissions from fuel burning alone.
Some countries with big emissions growth started from a low figure in 1990. Arguably, they were playing catchup. There is no such excuse for New Zealand. Its emissions started high and went higher.
They are today 60% higher than those of Britain, per head of population. Among industrialised nations, they are only exceeded by Canada, the US, Australia and Luxembourg. In recent years a lot of Brits have headed for Christchurch and Wellington in the hope of a green life in a country where they filmed the Lord of the Rings. But it's a green mirage.
To rub our noses in it, last year New Zealand signed up to the UN's Climate Neutral Network, a list of nations that are "laying out strategies to become carbon neutral".
But if you read the small print of what New Zealand has actually promised, it is a measly 50% in emissions by 2050 ? something even the US can trump.
Where do all these emissions come from? New Zealand turns out to be mining ever more filthy brown coal to burn in its power stations. It has the world's third highest rate of car ownership. And, with more cows than people, the country's increasingly intensive agricultural sector is responsible for approaching half the greenhouse gas emissions.
You might expect the UN Environment Programme to throw New Zealand off its list of countries supposedly pledged to head for climate neutrality. Sadly no. These steely guardians of the environment meekly say that the network "will not be policed... nor will UNEP verify claims".
Indeed, it seems to go to great lengths to deny reality. Check the UNEP website and you will find an excruciating hagiography about a "climate neutral journey to Middle Earth", in which everything from the local wines to air conditioning and Air New Zealand get the greenwash treatment.
After extolling the country's green credentials, it asks: "Have you landed in a dreamland?" Well, UNEP's reporter certainly has. He cheers New Zealand's "global leadership in tackling climate change", when the country's minister in charge of climate negotiations, Tim Groser, has been busy reassuring his compatriots that "we would not try to be 'leaders' in climate change."
This is not just political spin. It is also commercial greenwash. New Zealand trades on its greenness to promote its two big industries: tourism and dairy exports. Groser says his country's access to American markets for its produce is based on its positive environmental image. The government's national marketing strategy is underpinned by a survey showing that tourism would be reduced by 68% if the country lost its prized "clean, green image", and even international purchases of its dairy products could halve.
The trouble is, on the climate change front at least, that green image increasingly defies reality.
? Read the response from the New Zealand government here and here.
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Antarctic iceberg found floating near Macquarie island
Australian biologist spots 'huge floating island of ice' halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica
Mark Tran
Friday November 13 2009
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Dean Miller, an Australian fur seal biologist, was the first person to spot the large white object floating past Macquarie island in the far south-west corner of the Pacific Ocean.
"I've never seen anything like it. We looked out to the horizon and just saw this huge floating island of ice," Miller told the Australian Antarctic division. "It was a monumental moment for me as it was the first iceberg I have seen."
Estimated to be about 50m high ? from the waterline ? and 500m long, the iceberg is now about five miles (8km) off the north-west of Macquarie island, halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica south-west corner of the Pacific Ocean.
Scientists have said it is rare for icebergs to be seen so far north. Neil Young, an Australian Antarctic division glaciologist, said: "The iceberg is likely to be part of one of the big ones that calved from the Ross ice shelf nearly a decade ago.
"Throughout the year several icebergs have been drifting slowly northwards with the ocean current towards Macquarie Island. We know there are also a few more icebergs 100km-200km to the west of the island."
Several huge icebergs broke off from Antarctica's Ross ice shelf and the Ronne ice shelf in 2000 and are now drifting away from Antarctica. The first was about 190 miles long and 23 miles wide.
Scientists believe the iceberg off Macquarie will break up and melt rapidly as it meanders northwards. However, before melting it could present a danger to ships, Young said.
Since the start of satellite records in 1979, total Antarctic sea ice has increased by about 1% a decade, according to Nasa. The US space agency says it is unclear whether the small overall increase in sea ice expanse is a sign of meaningful change because ice areas vary considerably from year to year and from sector to sector.
Considered individually, only the Ross sea sector had a significant positive trend, while sea ice extent has actually decreased in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas.
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Indonesian maids in Singapore pursue degree programmes
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| Batam, (Analisa) Pakar lingkungan dari Inggris Tony Deep mengatakan jika setiap orang mengurangi makan daging 20 persen, maka akan mampu menghapuskan kelaparan di dunia. "Kalau saja Anda mengurangi makan daging, maka tidak akan ada lagi kelaparan di dunia," kata dia di sela-sela Kongres Vegetarian Asia ke-4 di Batam, Sabtu. Ia mengatakan jika setiap orang mengurangi memakan daging dan menggantinya dengan makanan tumbuhan, maka akan tersedia lebih banyak makanan di bumi. Daging, kata dia, diambil dari peternakan. Sebuah kandang hewan membutuhkan banyak ruang, yang bila dimanfaatkan sebagai kebun, akan menghasilkan lebih banyak makanan. Hewan, sebelum dikonsumsi, juga memakan tumbuhan, yang sebenarnya dapat dikonsumsi manusia. "Itulah makanya, jika manusia mengonsumsi tumbuhan dan menjadi vegetarian, maka tidak ada lagi kelaparan di dunia ini," kata dia. Ia mempercayai mengkonsumsi tumbuh-tumbuhan akan baik untuk kesehatan manusia. Sama baiknya, bahkan lebih baik, ketimbang mengkonsumsi daging. Menurut dia, menghentikan konsumsi daging juga akan berdampak baik bagi lingkungan. Selain Deep, belasan profesor akan mengisi Kongres Vegetarian Asia ke-4, di antaranya peraih Nobel Perdamaian yang juga Ketua Panel Antar pemerintahan soal Perubahan Iklim Perserikatan Bangsa-Bangsa atau IPPC PBB Rajendra Pachauri dan mantan ilmuwan NASA, Art-Ong Jumsa[i][Sai Organisation]. Sekitar 1.000 peserta dari 14 negara mengikuti Kongres Vegetarian Dunia ke-4 di Batam. Meskipum Kongres Asia, namun beberapa ilmuan Eropa seperti Inggris, Perancis dan Belgia juga turut hadir merumuskan rekomendasi dunia tentang vegetarian. Kongres, dibagi dalam beberapa fokus grup yang membahas berbagai hal yang terkait vegetarian, mulai dari hidup sehat hingga penyelamatan bumi. Kongres Vegetarian Asia Ke-4 dilaksanakan di Novotel Batam, 6-10 November.(Ant) SATHYA SAI EDUCATION IN INDONESIA AND KAZAKHSTAN [...] In Indonesia, it is very easy as they are very open. Now I've got to go and do a series of training for Muslim teachers in Indonesia. Another place where Sathya Sai Education is really spreading is Kazakhstan. The original people who lived in Kazakhstan are called Kazakhs. The Kazakhs are Muslims. And again, we were invited by the First Lady of Kazakhstan, who is a Kazakh. We started training in all the regions of the country. I've been there six times already. Then last February, the First Lady came here to meet Swami. And the First Lady asked me to come, so that we could meet Swami together. So I came and we had several interviews. Swami looked at me every time He called the Kazakh people. He said, "You are not Kazakh!" (Laughter) Then He told me, "This is only for Kazakhstan." So I looked sad. (Laughter) Swami looked at me and said, "Alright, alright. You can go in." (Laughter) So you see, God is not just Father and Mother. Sometimes, you have to treat Him as a Friend. Sometimes, you treat Him as an Elder Brother. But He is also our Father and Mother. As such, He always has a lot of compassion and a lot of love for all of us. Another country where we are now really going into is China. China is the last stronghold of communism. But when I go in there, I see that they are becoming very quickly a capitalist country. The whole country is changing and they are moving rapidly into industrialisation. And because they moved very quickly into materialism, they have a lot of problems with their youth. So now, there is a demand for human values there as well. I have already gone into the Guandong Province to train teachers there. And now, I have got an indication from the Nanjing local authorities to go and train teachers there as well. And you know how it happened? (Murmurs "no, no" in audience)[...] To continue reading click here: http://www.saibaba.ws/articles2/education_jumsai.htm |