http://www.greenkampong.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:00:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-concludes-the-climate-deadlock-doesnt/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-concludes-the-climate-deadlock-doesnt/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:25:17 +0000 Lian Kor http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3326 President Obama called the Copenhagen Accord – as the outcome of the two-week climate summit in the Danish capital came to be known as – ‘an important first step’. Essentially, the Copenhagen Accord is a 12-paragraph document outlining an agreement that the global average temperature increase must be kept to below 2degrees Celsius to avoid [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-concludes-the-climate-deadlock-doesnt/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-halftime-report-%e2%80%93-inequity-concerns-take-centre-stage/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-halftime-report-%e2%80%93-inequity-concerns-take-centre-stage/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:07:03 +0000 Lian Kor http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3313 And so it began: the countdown timer at the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) website struck 0. On Monday December 7th, COP15 President Connie Hedegaard declared: ‘Time is up! We have had enough wake-up calls. And we have hit the snooze button one time too many. We can make Copenhagen that turning [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-halftime-report-%e2%80%93-inequity-concerns-take-centre-stage/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/last-chance-to-see-the-melting-ice-bear/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/last-chance-to-see-the-melting-ice-bear/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:19:29 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3307 From greenpages.com.au: World leaders passing Copenhagen’s Nytorv for the Climate Change talks could get a chill in their spines as they come face to face with a polar bear. In the Arctic, melting sea ice is threatening the polar bear’s survival. In Copenhagen, the life-sized ‘bear in the square’ is an ice sculpture that will [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/last-chance-to-see-the-melting-ice-bear/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-it-makes-sense-to-mitigate-even-if-youre-skeptical/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-it-makes-sense-to-mitigate-even-if-youre-skeptical/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:36:54 +0000 Lian Kor http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3285 The 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) is happening this week, from Monday Dec 7th to Friday Dec 18th. Lord Nick Stern of the LSE has rightly called COP15 ‘the most important international gathering since the Second World War’. Having been involved in Nick’s work for about a year now, I hope to bring to your [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/cop15-it-makes-sense-to-mitigate-even-if-youre-skeptical/feed/ 0 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/singapores-sweet-16-pledge-to-cop15/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/singapores-sweet-16-pledge-to-cop15/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:38:24 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3276 It’s always good to bring a gift to a party, and it’s heartening to hear that we’re bringing a pledge of 16% cut from “business-as-usual” emission levels by 2020, especially after statements in the preceding two months, and of course, the Straits Times’ Andy Ho’s alarming call for the government not to commit to emission [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/singapores-sweet-16-pledge-to-cop15/feed/ 1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/what-is-copenhagen-and-cop15/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/what-is-copenhagen-and-cop15/#comments Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:31:17 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3268 From the (messy) desk of Benjamin (Mr Miyagi) Lee: There seems to be little or no awareness in Singapore of the Copenhagen Summit. It’s not surprising, given our general attitude that can be summed up as, “we’re a small country, it’s not our problem, let’s see what the big boys do, then we might follow”. [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/what-is-copenhagen-and-cop15/feed/ 1 http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/indochine-green-festival-nature-is-changing/ http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/indochine-green-festival-nature-is-changing/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:47:34 +0000 green team http://www.greenkampong.com/?p=3126 One of the events at this year’s Indochine Green Festival is a public lecture, “Nature is Changing – Copenhagen and Beyond. What does it mean for Asia”, featuring speakers from the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The event will be held on 11th November at the LKY School of Public Policy. Admission is free [...]]]> http://www.greenkampong.com/green_reporter/indochine-green-festival-nature-is-changing/feed/ 0