Tác giả: Đào Thu Hằng
I'm from Hanoi, Viet Nam.
I'm an author of Dot Chuoi Non (dotchuoinon.com/author/hangbelu/), a blog on Positive thinking, founded by Dr. Tran Dinh Hoanh, an attorney in Washington DC.
I'm a co-founder of Conversations on Vietnam Development - cvdvn.net, a virtual think tank. I am a co-founder of two companies in Viet Nam working on children education services. I advise companies on STEAM education, English language education for children and students in Vietnam.
I'm studying the Buddha's teaching and the teaching of Jesus. I practice mindful living including meditation.
I hold a PhD on Sustainable Energy Systems from University of Lisbon and Aalto University.
I graduated from Hanoi University of Technology on Environmental Engineering. I obtained a Master degree of the same major from Stanford University and Nanyang Technological University.
My English-language blog at: hangbelu.wordpress/.
I play table tennis as a hobby.
Top Countries By Number of Internet Users: 1990-2019
businessfibre.co.uk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUHOeObudlI
The video chart above shows the stunning growth in both the total number of internet users between 1900 and 2019 and which countries had the largest total internet population.
In 1990, things looked rather different from today. Here are the top 10 countries and the number of users per country:
- United States: 1,981,674
- Canada: 99,970
- Australia: 99,709
- Germany: 99,604
- Sweden: 50,050
- Netherlands: 50,043
- UK: 49,953
- Switzerland: 39,763
- France: 30,063
- Norway: 30,041
By 2019 both the mix of countries and total number of users have changed dramatically. Tiếp tục đọc “Top Countries By Number of Internet Users: 1990-2019”
Dự thảo Luật bảo vệ môi trường có… xa dân?
17/02/2020 19:40 GMT+7
TTO – Phân tích dự thảo Luật bảo vệ môi trường sửa đổi 2020, đại diện các mạng lưới, liên minh, tổ chức và nhà nghiên cứu hoạt động trong lĩnh vực môi trường, năng lượng, sức khỏe và pháp lý nhìn nhận dự luật này còn nhiều lý thuyết, ‘xa’ dân.
- Dạy trẻ bảo vệ môi trường
- Lễ tết, nhiều người không đi máy bay để bảo vệ môi trường
- <a title="Chưa hoàn hồn vụ cháy Rạng Đông, dân Hạ Đình lại khổ vì nước" Tiếp tục đọc “Dự thảo Luật bảo vệ môi trường có… xa dân?”
Climate breakthrough award to a Vietnamese for the first time – BÀ NGỤY THỊ KHANH NGƯỜI VIỆT ĐẦU TIÊN ĐẠT GIẢI THƯỞNG KHÍ HẬU BREAKTHROUGH PROJECT NĂM 2019
#Climatebreakthroughweek
Nguồn: https://www.climatebreakthroughproject.org/awardee/nguy-thi-khanh/
Chúng tôi vinh dự được chia sẻ thông tin, Climate Breakthrough Project vừa công bố hai giải thưởng mới của năm 2019: Bà Ngụy Thị Khanh của Việt Nam và Ông Arief Rabik của Indonesia. Cả hai sẽ nhận được 2 triệu đô la trong ba năm tới để thiết kế và đưa ra các sáng kiến toàn cầu.
Battery Storage – Cost Projections for Utility-Scale
Battery storage costs have evolved rapidly over the past several years, necessitating an update to storage cost projections used in long-term planning models and other activities. This work documents the development of these projections, which are based on recent publications of storage costs. The projections show a wide range of storage costs, both in terms of current costs as well as future costs. Although the range in projections is considerable, all projections do show a decline in capital costs, with cost reductions by 2025 of 10-52%. The cost projections developed in this work utilize the normalized cost reductions across the literature, and result in 21-67% capital cost reductions by 2030 and 31-80% cost reductions by 2050. The cost projections are also accompanied by assumed operations and maintenance costs, lifetimes, and round-trip efficiencies, and these performance metrics are benchmarked against other published values.
Download full report https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73222.pdf
Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second. Or two Hurricane Sandys.
By Dana Nuccitelli, February 3, 2020
Long-exposure photo of the first atomic bomb test, code-named Trinity, and taken at 5:29:45 a.m. on July 16, 1945.
The heat absorbed in Earth’s oceans reached a new record in 2019, found a recent study published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences. Despite the fact that this has been the case for almost every year over the past decade, this information dominated the news cycle, with some particularly viral headlines noting that the amount of energy accumulating in the oceans is equivalent to detonating five Hiroshima atomic bombs per second, every second over the past 25 years.
Tiếp tục đọc “Earth is heating at a rate equivalent to five atomic bombs per second. Or two Hurricane Sandys.”
Không thể tùy tiện cắt điện, nước như một hình thức xử phạt vi phạm
TTO – Đó là quan điểm của Ủy ban Pháp luật và Chủ nhiệm Ủy ban Tư pháp khi thẩm tra biện pháp cưỡng chế thi hành quyết định xử phạt vi phạm hành chính “ngừng cung cấp các dịch vụ điện, nước”.
Chủ nhiệm Ủy ban Tư pháp Lê Thị Nga – Ảnh: Quochoi.vn
Tiếp tục đọc “Không thể tùy tiện cắt điện, nước như một hình thức xử phạt vi phạm”
Three ways national development banks can unlock climate-smart growth
28 January 2020
There is no doubt the world is facing a climate emergency. We must all act now to shift to climate-smart growth by redirecting our current investment and financing flows towards the Paris Agreement. National development banks (NDBs) have huge untapped potential to support this transformation. But our new report finds that despite their collective firepower – which far exceeds that of the multilateral and bilateral development banking system – NDBs have yet to step out of the shadows and into the international and domestic limelight. It is now time for NDBs to claim their rightful place at the policy table.
Tiếp tục đọc “Three ways national development banks can unlock climate-smart growth”
Indonesia’s Aceh enlists an all-female flogging squad to enforce Shariah law
A female flogging squad has enraged Indonesian activists. Authorities in the province say more women are committing “moral” offenses, which are punishable in Islamic-conservative Aceh by whipping or caning.
Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island follows Shariah law, an Islamic criminal code that includes “morality” offenses like gambling, adultery, drinking alcohol, and having gay or pre-marital sex.
Tiếp tục đọc “Indonesia’s Aceh enlists an all-female flogging squad to enforce Shariah law”
EU Parliament to approve EU-Vietnam trade deal despite human rights “concerns”
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By Jorge Valero | EURACTIV.com 0:02
The European Parliament is set to approve on Wednesday (12 February) a trade agreement with Vietnam, despite some MEPs and NGOs seeking to postpone their consent until the human rights situation improves in the country.
The agreement, concluded after six years of negotiations, would be the most ambitious deal signed with a developing nation.
It will eliminate 99% of the tariffs over a seven-year period and will reduce other non-tariff barriers for cars wines and spirits. It will also protect Europe’s geographical indications on products including Champagne, Rioja and Parmigiano.
“The deal will give a boost to the prosperity both of the EU and Vietnam, and represents a great opportunity for European exporters and investors”, said Parliament’s rapporteur, Belgian conservative Geert Bourgeois.
Vietnam is known for its textile and technology exports, especially smartphones. Samsung represents around 20% of the goods the country sends overseas.
But human rights organizations and some political groups were calling to postpone the approval until the country improves further its human rights and labour conditions.
During the debate held in the plenary of Tuesday, political groups including the EPP, Socialists, the liberal Renew Europe group and conservatives spoke in favour of giving their consent to their agreement, while the Identity and Democracy, the Greens and the Left-GUE were against.
Following the Parliament’s blessing, the agreement must be approved by the Council. The investment protection agreement must also be ratified by the 27 member states.
Tiếp tục đọc “EU Parliament to approve EU-Vietnam trade deal despite human rights “concerns””
Ra mắt Văn phòng Đại diện Hiệp hội Năng lượng Sạch Việt Nam tại TP.HCM
Ngày 9/2/2020, Hiệp hội Năng lượng Sạch Việt Nam đã tổ chức Lễ ra mắt Văn phòng đại diện Hiệp hội tại Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh.
TS Mai Duy Thiện trao quyết định cho ông Hoàng Giang, Trưởng Văn phòng Đại diện Hiệp hội Năng lượng Sạch Việt Nam tại Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh
Đến tham dự buổi lễ có TS Mai Duy Thiện – Phó Chủ tịch Thường trực, Hiệp hội Năng lượng Sạch Việt Nam (VCEA) và đông đảo đại diện các doanh nghiệp, hội viên hoạt động trong lĩnh vực năng lượng tái tạo.
Phát biểu tại buổi lễ, ông Mai Duy Thiện cho biết, Việt Nam nằm trong khu vực nhiệt đới gió mùa, số giờ nắng bình quân trong năm từ 2.500 – 3.000 giờ; nhiệt độ bình quân năm trên 21 0 C; hơn 8% diện tích có tiềm năng gió rất tốt (tốc độ gió ở độ cao 65m là 7 – 8 m/giây)… Với lợi thế đó, Việt Nam xác định, đây là 2 nguồn năng lượng chính để phát triển điện sạch.
Tiếp tục đọc “Ra mắt Văn phòng Đại diện Hiệp hội Năng lượng Sạch Việt Nam tại TP.HCM”
Fast fashion giant H&M appoints former sustainability head as CEO; activists call for a different business model
Industry observers hope H&M Group’s new CEO, Helena Helmersson, will push for more durable fashion and steer the company away from overproduction.
Helena Helmersson. Image: Mattias Bardå/ H&M Group
Helmersson is the 73-year-old company’s first female chief executive, but what has caught the eye of activists and fashion industry insiders is the 46 year-old’s career path in the company that she joined in 1997. Tiếp tục đọc “Fast fashion giant H&M appoints former sustainability head as CEO; activists call for a different business model”
Chuyến bay đặc biệt chở 30 công dân Việt Nam từ Vũ Hán về sân bay Vân Đồn
Rạng sáng nay, 10.2, chuyến bay đặc biệt HVN68 chở theo 30 người Việt Nam từ Vũ Hán (Trung Quốc) về nước đã hạ cánh tại sân bay Vân Đồn.
Phi hành đoàn và đội ngũ chuyên gia trên chuyến bay khởi hành từ Nội Bài đêm 9.2
Ảnh chụp màn hình
Máy bay Airbus A321 số hiệu chuyến bay HVN68 của Vietnam Airlines đã khởi hành lúc 21 giờ 55 phút tối qua, 9.2, từ Nội Bài, vận chuyển đồ cứu trợ của Chính phủ Việt Nam cho Chính phủ, người dân Trung Quốc và hàng hóa viện trợ của Vietnam Airlines ủng hộ các hãng hàng không Trung Quốc.
Tiếp tục đọc “Chuyến bay đặc biệt chở 30 công dân Việt Nam từ Vũ Hán về sân bay Vân Đồn”
10 Wuhan professors signed an open letter demanding free speech protections after a doctor who was punished for warning others about coronavirus died from it
- An open letter signed by 10 Wuhan professors argues that the Chinese government needs to enforce its own freedom of speech articles in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China.
- The letter follows the death of Li Wenliang, a Wuhan doctor who was reprimanded by police for “making false comments” after warning people about the Wuhan coronavirus – which he later contracted.
- The open letter, along with another letter signed by academics around China, demands that the government apologize to and compensate coronavirus whistleblowers and make Li a national martyr.
At the onset of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, local doctor Li Wenliang <a Tiếp tục đọc “10 Wuhan professors signed an open letter demanding free speech protections after a doctor who was punished for warning others about coronavirus died from it”
First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others
Date: February 4, 2020
Source:University of California – Los Angeles
Summary:Why are some people better able to fight off the flu than others? Part of the answer, according to a new study, is related to the first flu strain we encounter in childhood.
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Why are some people better able to fight off the flu than others? Part of the answer, according to a new study, is related to the first flu strain we encounter in childhood.
Scientists from UCLA and the University of Arizona have found that people’s ability to fight off the flu virus is determined not only by the subtypes of flu they have had throughout their lives, but also by the sequence in which they are been infected by the viruses. Their study is published in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. Tiếp tục đọc “First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others”
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