The World Mayors and Local Governments Climate Protection Agreement
Published at December 28th, 2007 | 388 views | 1 Comment
CITIES & LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MOBILISING LEADERSHIP AND LOCAL CLIMATE ACTION
By 2030, two thirds of humanity will live in urban centers, where today more than 50% of the world’s population lives and more than 75% of all energy is consumed. All cities are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, especially fast growing cities in developing countries. Mayors and local governments are critical when it comes to practical climate actions. If genuinely empowered and resourced, they have the potential to lead emission reductions to ensure high global greenhouse gas emissions reductions targets are met. …read more!
Children Conference on Climate Change
Published at August 21st, 2007 | 931 views | 5 Comments
Conference of Parties 13 (COP13) on Climate Change in Bali is coming. Indonesia as host country is being busy to make sure that the conference will be successful. Apart from the COP13, another conference for children called Children Conference on Climate Change is going to be carried out in Surabaya prior to COP13. Children from all part of the country and overseas will get together to learn and to anticipate the climate change problems. …read more!
CDM for solid waste reduction
Published at July 6th, 2007 | 320 views | No Comments
Surabaya is going to be a pioneer in promoting co-benefit CDM for waste segregation and individual waste composting. In a meeting on 25 June 2007 in Kitakyushu, it was agreed to start a project for a co-benefit CDM for Surabaya under assistance of Ministry of Environment of Japan, OECC, ICLEI-Japan and the city of Kitakyushu. Mr. Makoto Kato from OECC chaired the meeting, and I raised some preparation issues related to the project. …read more!
English Postings
Published at June 28th, 2007 | 589 views | 2 Comments
A friend of mine at IGES Japan told me that he read this site, however, since most of the contents written in Bahasa Indonesia, he could not understand the postings. We got together in the Kitakyushu Meeting beginning of this week in Japan. …read more!
