Conversations on Vietnam Development
scmp – Published: 7:15am, 5 Sep, 2022
Tiếp tục đọc “‘It can be pretty horrifying’: how Cambodia’s land grabs are ruining lives”
COLOMBO — Anyone who’d ever seen Maheshakya in the wildernesses of Kebithigollewa in Sri Lanka’s North Central province agreed that, as elephants went, he was an exemplary specimen with large tusks. Earlier this year, he got into a fight with another elephant, which left Maheshakya seriously wounded. As he lay in pain, still alive and conscious, a poacher cut off one of his tusks. Twenty days later, Maheshakya was dead.
In the time since Maheshakya had suffered his injuries during the fight, veterinarians from the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC) were able to check on him just twice. Before this year, Maheshakya would have received many more visits, possibly preventing the loss of his tusk and subsequent death. But Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic crisis, the worst in the country’s history, meant that was not to be.
“If we had more opportunity to treat the elephant and visit frequently, there was a chance of saving his life. But we did not have fuel in our vehicles to make this journey regularly,” said Chandana Jayasinghe, a wildlife veterinary surgeon at the DWC.
Sri Lanka has declared bankruptcy and lacks foreign reserves to import essential goods for its people, such as medicine, fuel and gas. Kilometers-long lines at gas stations have become a permanent scene throughout the country, and although a rationing system is helping shorten the wait times, what little fuel is available isn’t enough for wildlife officials to do their regular work. This leaves response teams, like the one Jayasinghe works on, often unable to go out on rescue missions.
Rescue operations affected
Tiếp tục đọc “Sri Lanka fuel shortage takes massive toll on efforts to save wildlife”
The flow of plastic entering the ocean is expected to double by 2040. To prevent this tsunami of difficult-to-decompose waste, experts have proposed a global treaty which could oblige all nations to reduce how much plastic they produce and emit to the environment.
At a recent meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, ministers and representatives from 173 countries agreed on the terms for negotiating such a treaty over the next two years.
Is this the turning point for plastic pollution the world needs? And how will it work? We asked Steve Fletcher, a professor of ocean policy and economy at the University of Portsmouth and an advisor to the UN Environment Prograamme on plastic.
What has actually been agreed in Nairobi?
The UNEA is a gathering of all United Nations member states to discuss and adopt policies for tackling global environmental problems. It is the highest environmental decision-making body in the world. On Wednesday March 2 2022, ministers and representatives from 173 countries formally adopted a resolution to start negotiations for a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.
Agreeing the mandate and focus of the negotiations is just the start. Before the end of 2024, the substance of the agreement will need to be thrashed out.
06 APR, 2021
when it comes to the Paris Agreement and climate action; namely that when individuals change their behaviour by consuming differently they can drive industries to change, as those industries are then caught between a ‘greening’ consumer demand and international and governmental policies focusing on climate action.
Back in the 1980s, everyone was talking about the hole in the ozone layer, so what happened, and what can the international agreement to ban CFCs teach us about the importance of multilateral cooperation when it comes to climate action?
The ozone layer is the part of the Earth’s atmosphere that protects the planet from ultraviolet radiation. It’s found in the Stratosphere which is around 10-50km above the surface of the earth. Think of it as a layer of sunscreen that protects us from all manner of harmful rays. Without it, life on Earth would be extremely unpleasant.
Exactly right, in fact it’s a very bad thing.
Tiếp tục đọc “What The Ozone Layer Teaches Us About Climate Action”
Green water – the rainwater available to plants in the soil – is indispensable for life on and below the land. But in a new study, we found that widespread pressure on this resource has crossed a critical limit.
The planetary boundaries framework – a concept that scientists first discussed in 2009 – identified nine processes that have remained remarkably steady in the Earth system over the last 11,700 years. These include a relatively stable global climate and an intact biosphere that have allowed civilisations based on agriculture to thrive. Researchers proposed that each of these processes has a boundary that, once crossed, puts the Earth system, or substantial components of it, at risk of upset.
Morgan McFall-Johnsen Aug 13, 2022, 4:30 PM
MAI VINH 29/11/2020 18:00 GMT+7
TTCT – Dùng muối mỏ, dầu hỏa, thuốc diệt cỏ, bao nilông, đốt lửa… là vài cách phổ biến nhất trong 1.001 cách “giết” một cái cây đang được nhiều website hướng dẫn công khai trên mạng. Tỉ mỉ đến cả quy trình giết cây, từ cây non tới cổ thụ, sao cho kín đáo và hiệu quả nhất, lại khó bị phát hiện. Ở Lâm Đồng, hàng ngàn cây thông đã bị giết theo cách ấy. Thoạt tiên là vài cây thông lẻ nhưng sau 10 năm, hơn 90 ngàn hecta rừng đã biến mất.
Tổng cục Lâm nghiệp (Bộ Nông nghiệp và phát triển nông thôn) đã tiến hành kiểm kê rừng trên địa bàn tỉnh Lâm Đồng và công bố kết quả vào các năm 2016, 2018.
Gần đây, giới trẻ rộ lên trend (xu hướng) nuôi động vật hoang dã như thú cưng. Nhưng bạn có biết rằng, nuôi động vật hoang dã khiến cho nhiều loại thú đứng bên bờ vực tuyệt chủng và thế giới tự nhiên mất cân bằng nghiêm trọng?
Trend nuôi thú cưng là động vật hoang dã
Tiếp tục đọc “Biết điều này, teen còn tiếp tục nuôi động vật hoang dã?”
By Minh Nga July 28, 2022 | 08:00 am GMT+7
Take-away food and drink packaging is dumped in a public site in Thu Thiem New Urban Area in HCMC, May 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh TranGarbage from take-away food and drinks make up 44 percent of plastic waste found at surveyed sites in Vietnam, according to the World Bank.
Plastic waste at both surveyed river and coastal sites across Vietnam came mostly from take-away-related sources.
Take-away related waste accounted for 43.6 percent in number and 35.1 percent in weight of the total plastic waste, followed by fisheries-related waste (32.6 percent in number and 30.6 percent in weight), and household-related waste (21.6 percent in number and 22.8 percent in weight), according to a World Bank report released this week.Total amount of plastic waste by source on surveyed sites in Vietnam2020-2021Take-away related wasteTake-away related wasteFisheries related waseFisheries related waseHousehold related wasteHousehold related wasteAgriculture related-wasteAgriculture related-wasteSanitary and medical related wasteSanitary and medical related wasteTake-away related waste●
volume (%): 43.6
Tiếp tục đọc “Take-away food packaging makes up most plastic waste in Vietnam: survey”
Theo thống kê của Bộ Tài nguyên và Môi trường, bình quân mỗi hộ gia đình sử dụng khoảng 1 kg túi nilon mỗi tháng. Lượng chất thải nhựa và túi nilon hiện tại chiếm khoảng từ 8 – 12% chất thải rắn sinh hoạt, nhưng chỉ có khoảng từ 11 – 12% trong số đó được xử lý tái chế. Số còn lại chủ yếu được chôn lấp, đốt và thải ra ngoài môi trường. Vậy đâu là giải pháp để xử lý rác thải nhựa thông minh và hiệu quả.
Tiếp tục đọc “Cần thay đổi thói quen đặt đồ ăn online để giảm rác thải nhựa ra môi trường”
Green water – the rainwater available to plants in the soil – is indispensable for life on and below the land. But in a new study, we found that widespread pressure on this resource has crossed a critical limit.
The planetary boundaries framework – a concept that scientists first discussed in 2009 – identified nine processes that have remained remarkably steady in the Earth system over the last 11,700 years. These include a relatively stable global climate and an intact biosphere that have allowed civilisations based on agriculture to thrive. Researchers proposed that each of these processes has a boundary that, once crossed, puts the Earth system, or substantial components of it, at risk of upset.
Tiếp tục đọc “Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit “
As we face increased flooding, China’s sponge cities are taking a new course. But can they steer the country away from concrete megadams?
Written by Erica Gies, read by Andrew McGregor and produced by Tony Onuchukwu. The executive producers were Max Sanderson and Isabelle Roughol.
the guardian – Fri 17 Jun 2022 05.00 BST
Tiếp tục đọc “Slow water: can we tame urban floods by going with the flow?”
TS – – Thanh Nhàn
Từ những mảnh ghép rời rạc trong quá khứ và hiện tại, liệu chúng ta có thể hiểu rõ về tình trạng lún ở Hà Nội hay không?
Nhưng có gì lạ với lún ở Hà Nội? Cách đây hơn 15 năm, Hà Nội đã từng chứng kiến cảnh tượng khó quên ở khu tập thể năm tầng C1 Thành Công, quận Ba Đình: mặt đất như muốn nuốt chửng hơn một nửa tầng một khiến toàn bộ tầng này chỉ còn nhô lên khỏi mặt đất chừng hơn một mét, phần cầu thang giữa hai đơn nguyên gãy gập theo đường gấp khúc, một vài cầu thang khác uốn cong theo chiều võng của tòa nhà khiến việc di chuyển được người dân sống ở đó miêu tả là “như leo thác”. Nhiều tờ báo như Tuổi trẻ, Nhân dân, CAND, Vietnamnet… vào thời điểm đó đã đồng thanh lên tiếng về hiện tượng này.
The Guardian
As the United States turns to electric vehicles, solar and wind for its clean energy transition, the demand for lithium – used in rechargeable batteries – is on the rise.
By Dac Thanh July 7, 2022 | 08:13 am GMT+7
Bandits have set up camps and built tunnels to illegally extract gold inside a protection forest of Quang Nam Province.
For around three months now, miners have rushed to the mountainous district of Phuoc Son in the central province to illegally extract gold.
Miners set up tents and made a pond to pan for gold in a protected forest in Phuoc Son.
People living near the site said two Quang Nam residents had invested in machinery and hired locals to work at the mining site without permission.
A tunnel that runs five meters deep at the mining site.
Tiếp tục đọc “Gold rush turns Vietnam forest into construction site”
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