The Daily IIJ

BY JAMES RATEMO IN NAIROBI
So Michael Jackson is dead enh? But why? Well I know this is the question that played on many minds and lips.Kenya was not left behind. POLITICS that take centre stage in Kenyan Media and the Somalia crisis was shelved as the country went into mourning for a man who “touched [...]

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(Bonn, Jurnal Nasional) To avoid deadlock on climate change talks, 37 developing countries are to set emission reduction target for industrial countries on the table in Bonn, Germany.
The target came as 40 % reduction from 1990 level for industrial countries, based on climate change research of IPCC which divided individually based on historical responsibility and [...]

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(Bonn, Germany) With lack of science data, Indonesia still determined to lead small islands countries (AOSIS) to push ocean as one of the issue in June climate change talks of UNFCCC in Bonn, Germany.
This action was based on Manado Ocean Declaration (MOD) that adopted last month where Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and AOSIS determined to attract [...]

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Climate change has gripped the North East of India, the region known to receive rainfall in abundance. The entire North East has received deficit rainfall in 2009. Till end of April according to data of the Indian Meteorology department the states of Assam and Meghalaya has received 83.9 mm rainfall whereas the normal is 166 [...]

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(Bonn, Jurnal Nasional) Natural disasters caused by climate change will make more then 200 millions people around the globe displaced from their home, Professor Norman Myers of Oxford University study declared.
Myers research estimate moonson pattern change, high density of rain falls, droughts, sea level rise and coastal flooding will forced one of each 45 people [...]

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Midmorning on March 6, swirling, yellowish clouds engulfed Guwahati, the largest city in the northeast of India. Freaky winds threw traffic out of gear, bent telephone and power lines and tossed hoardings into the air. Dust stung the eyes and the visibility dropped to 800 metres. Above the Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, an Indian [...]

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The once-treasured lighthouse on Kutubdia island in Bangkadesh is sinking due to rising sea levels and unabated erosion that has caused half the island to disappear in a matter of decades.The once 60 sq km island has been reduced to a mere 25 sq km since the 1960’s.
The lighthouse built in British times is no [...]

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Climate change accounts for over 300,000 deaths world wide, the equivalent of an Indian Ocean Tsunami yearly, a report said. The report launched by Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, in London said economic losses due to climate change amount to over $125 billion annually.

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(Bonn, Jurnal Nasional) World liberal financial system might been collapsed twice in the last 50 years, but carbon market that will be used to sell Indonesian forest ability to absorb carbon emission is still going to use the old fashion way system.

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(Bonn, Jurnal Nasional) A plastic bag in Nicholas Gomez’s hand might not seem interesting. It just an ordinary goody bag filled with Euro coins, with only some papers in it. And it cost no more than 131 Euro.

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