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Climate change and the collapse of Angkor Wat
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I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University.
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Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid
The way the world gets its electricity is undergoing a rapid transition, driven by both the increased urgency of decarbonizing energy systems and the plummeting costs of wind and solar technology. In the past decade electricity generated by renewables in the U.S. has doubled, primarily from wind and solar Tiếp tục đọc “Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid”
The poor look out for peers in Covid-19 times
A lottery ticket vendor (R) receives a bag of free lunch from a charity kitchen in Ho Chi Minh City, April 17, 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa.
At many donation distribution sites in Vietnam, poor people crippled by Covid-19 are thankful and won’t take more than they need.
Last Friday afternoon, two women walked to a charity booth at 420 Lac Long Quan Street in Hanoi.
One of them took the donated food items and walked off immediately.
The other, a slim woman in her mid-thirties, hesitated after receiving her gift pack.
She stood silently for a while, an envelope in her hand. After she’d gathered enough courage, she walked towards Dao Tuan Hung, who was managing the booth. She pressed the envelope into his hand.
“I immediately told her it was a free present, but she said that it was not money. She left quickly after giving me the envelope,” Hung said.
Inside was a handwritten letter.
“Dear ladies and gentlemen.
I have been an unemployed worker since the Covid-19 disease hit the country, the people and the government’s 16th decree (national social distancing campaign) to ensure the lives of people and the community. I sold things for a living but had to stop and paying rent has become difficult. I came across Lac Long Quan Street and found this place which distributes rice and noodles.
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U.N. warns economic downturn could kill hundreds of thousands of children in 2020
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis, the United Nations warned on Thursday.
The world body also said in a risk report that nearly 369 million children across 143 countries who normally rely on school meals for a reliable source of daily nutrition have now been forced to look elsewhere.
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To starve or get sick: Africa’s coronavirus dilemma
‘Rice ATM’ feeds Vietnam’s poor amid virus lockdown
HO CHI MINH CITY (Reuters) – A Vietnamese entrepreneur in Ho Chi Minh City has invented a 24/7 automatic dispensing machine providing free rice for people out of work following an ongoing nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Vietnam has reported 262 COVID-19 cases, and no deaths so far, but as a result of a 15-day social distancing programme that began on March 31 many small businesses have been shuttered and thousands of people temporarily laid off from work.
Nguyen Thi Ly’s husband was among those who have lost their job. Tiếp tục đọc “‘Rice ATM’ feeds Vietnam’s poor amid virus lockdown”
Monitoring the Quantity of Water Flowing Through the Upper Mekong Through Natural (Unimpeded) Conditions
The Eyes on Earth report, Monitoring the Quantity of Water Flowing Through the Upper Mekong Through Natural (Unimpeded) Conditions, published this week by Pact, shows that deviations from normal flow patterns began to occur with the operation of the first large hydropower dam on the Upper Mekong mainstream in 2012. Using satellite data on the Upper Mekong from 1992 to 2019, matched against daily measurements of river height downstream at Chiang Saen, Thailand, the research shows unusual fluctuations in recent years. The report concludes that cooperation between China and the Lower Mekong countries to simulate the natural flow cycle of the Mekong could potentially improve low-flow conditions and benefit all communities in the Mekong River Basin.
Các doanh nghiệp năng lượng chung tay đẩy lùi dịch COVID-19
Sáng ngày 28/3, Đại diện của Hiệp hội Năng lượng Sạch Việt Nam – Văn phòng đại diện tại TP.HCM, phối hợp với Hiệp hội Điện gió tỉnh Bình Thuận, cùng các doanh nghiệp ngành năng lượng tái tạo đã đến thăm, chia sẻ khó khăn và hỗ trợ những vật dụng thiết yếu cho cơ sở cách ly tập trung tại khu B, Ký túc xá Đại học Quốc gia TP.HCM.
Góp ý và bình luận về quyết định của TTCP cơ chế khuyến khích phát triển điện mặt trời tại Việt Nam 13/2020/QD-TTg
Thủ tướng Chính phủ VN vừa ra Quyết định số 13/2020/QĐ-TTg ngày 6/4/2020 về cơ chế khuyến khích phát triển điện mặt trời tại Việt Nam. Quyết định này có hiệu lực thi hành từ ngày 22/5/2020. (Xem Toàn văn quyết định)
Quyết định là một dấu hiệu tích cực thể hiện cam kết của Việt Nam để cung cấp những tín hiệu rõ ràng hơn về chính sách cho thị trường điện mặt trời, đặc biệt liên quan đến điện mặt trời áp mái, và công nhận khái niệm mua bán điện từ mái nhà tư nhân.
Tuy nhiên, mốc thời hạn của quyết định cho FIT2 đến cuối năm 2020 chỉ còn 9 tháng, có nghĩa là sẽ vẫn tồn tại đáng kể những điểm chưa rõ ràng, điều này sẽ cản trở các quyết định đầu tư. Sự chưa rõ ràng về mốc thời gian này rất nhiều nguy cơ có thể trở nên càng bất ổn hơn trước những thách thức liên quan đến dịch bệnh COVID. Những quyết định và quy định hướng dẫn sau quyết định này nên làm rõ về lộ trình chắc chắn hơn trong cơ chế cho giá FIT và các cơ chế khuyến khích khác để thúc đẩy các quyết định đầu tư vào điện mặt trời,dể phát triển tiềm năng lớn của điện mặt trời tại Việt Nam Tiếp tục đọc “Góp ý và bình luận về quyết định của TTCP cơ chế khuyến khích phát triển điện mặt trời tại Việt Nam 13/2020/QD-TTg”
Global poverty update from the World Bank: New poverty estimates for 2018
The March 2020 global poverty update added more than 200 new surveys to PovcalNet, bringing the total number of surveys to more than 1,900. New poverty estimates for the reference year 2018 are now included for some regions, and the previously published global and regional estimates from 1981 to 2015 have been revised, reflecting data revisions and the availability of new data. More details on the revisions can be found in Atamanov et al. (2020).
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Coconut farmers in Southeast Asia struggle as palm oil muscles in on them
- Indonesia and the Philippines account for most of the world’s coconut production. But as the palm oil industry expands, helped along by generous government subsidies, coconut farmers are struggling to adapt.
- In 2010, palm oil overtook coconut oil as the top-selling oil in most Philippine grocery stores. Most of it was imported from Indonesia or Malaysia, but now the Philippines is trying increase its own production.
- Oil palm is a much more industrialized crop than coconut, which is dominated by smallholders. But while the low price of palm oil has given it an advantage, demand has risen for high-quality coconut products due to health and sustainability concerns.
- Some coconut farmers say they need the same kind of support from the government that palm oil companies get if they are going to survive.
GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines — Lucio Tena, 64, has been growing coconuts on his 20-hectare (49-acre) farm in General Nakar, on the east coast of the Philippine island of Luzon, for more than four decades. But the situation facing farmers like him today is the worst he’s experienced in his lifetime.
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Tôn vinh văn hóa địa phương – một cách mới để nâng cấp cơ sở hạ tầng / Honoring local culture – a new way to sustain infrastructure
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Vietnam’s social marketing hit a new level in the time of COVID19 – Truyền thông xã hội Việt Nam thời Corona
Museum Asks People To Recreate Paintings With Stuff They Can Find at Home, Here Are The Results
Even though most of us are stuck at home during Coronavirus quarantine and can’t go out and enjoy art in museums, that doesn’t mean that life has to be boring or uncultured. The Getty Museum in Los Angeles challenged art fans to post photos of themselves recreating their favorite works of art from the safety of their homes. People responded with a lot of enthusiasm and flooded social media with their unique artistic interpretations. Scroll down to see the best examples!
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