Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We are sharing expertise with countries such as South Africa, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia to develop network decarbonisation plans. There was a significant increase in the diversity of participation this year, with representation from more countries and regions.

COP 36

COP Fossil fuels Africa Policy 36

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

A recent study from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology considers how changing ecosystems along the China-Laos border affected bat species and the chances of disease being passed on to humans. While the dense concentration of farms in some regions can also increase the potential for pathogens to spread.

Climate change 59

Climate change Biodiversity Medicine Agriculture 59

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Drought aggravated by climate change is hurting coffee growers in the Mekong region, and intensive farming techniques are part of the problem This is the first of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. In 2016, it caused a state of emergency in the central and southern regions of the country.

Climate change 40

Climate change Soil Agriculture Construction 40

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

. “There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. Most of the valley ranks in the upper third of CalEnviroScreen scores and the region has the worst air quality in the nation.

Pollution 28

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 28

Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

The fragmentation of waste management systems is also shown in the Regional Study on Mercury Waste Management in the ASEAN countries , that was published in 2017 and supervised by the International Environmental Technology Centre of the United Nations. disposal fees) instead of on re-use and recycling of materials. million tons per year.

Waste 52

Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 52

Planet Pulse

JUNE 10, 2022

From these surveys, we learned about some of the fascinating ways and locations the user community is looking at and putting the high-resolution data to work, including (but not limited to): The Laos Department of Forestry , with support from Kokusai Kogyo Co.

Agriculture 98

Agriculture Logging Organic Carbon 98

Planet Pulse

MARCH 2, 2021

In Peru , the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and the Forest Wildlife Service (SERFOR) are leveraging the data via the UN-REDD Programme to improve its Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL), a key benchmark for its measurement of the Amazon region and reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Climate change 114

Climate change Organic Agriculture Government 114

Planet Pulse

JULY 12, 2021

” Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) is working to achieve Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) pledged in its Paris Agreement commitments. A key condition is working to reduce the uncertainty of emission estimates due to forest degradation from selective logging and shifting cultivation.

Logging 58

Logging Law Africa Government 58