basin water blog

To help avoid extreme climate change, existing wetlands should be enhanced and new wetlands created so they could capture more carbon.  Wetlands hold about 20% of all terrestrial carbon stock.  However, wetlands, including peatlands, continue to be convered to other uses around the world, resulting in large emission of carbon and methane.  Besides capturing and holding carbon, wetlands are hotspots of biodiversity, crucial components in flood control, and in providing clean water. Without substantial reductions in emissions of fossil fuels, up to 85 percent of wetlands will be lost in the future.  It would also release enough carbon and methane to almost certainly tip the climate into an era of extreme and rapid change. Wetlands, including marshes, peat bogs, swamps, river deltas, mangroves, tundra, lagoon, and river floodplains, are covering just 6% of the earth land surface.  It contain an estimated 771 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, both CO2 and more p...

Limiting warming to two degree Celcius was recommended as one of the commitment on the December 2009, Copenhagen Accord. As of 1st February 2010, among the 194 member nations of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), fifty five (55) nations have registered their commitment to combat global warming.  The number was increased to over 100 countries in late February.  China and India are yet to say if they will associate or not.  However, according to Yvo de Boer, the head of UN climate change secretariat, both China and India together with about 60 other countries, heve submitted plans or targets on the actions they plan to take. A UNEP conerence of environment minister and officials from more than 135 countries was held in Bali, Nusa Dua in February 2010. An independent board of scientists will be appointed to review the world's top climate change panel, which have been accused for exaggerated the pace of melt of Himalayan glaciers. This month (February 2010)...

Climate change threatens food production, agriculture, water supply, as well as the existance of small islands, coral reefs, and wetlands. What are we going to do about it? Carbon trading is one way that has been seen as an important action, which every countries has to do in reducing the greenhouse gas pollution. Under the scheme that known as "cap and trade", each government sets an overall limit on the amount of carbon the economy can produce and provides permits to industry up to the nominated amount. A carbon intensive industry has to pay extra if they exceed their allocation. Asia’s mega delta cities are of the most expose to the impact of climate change’s through the floods. (Borneo-post, December 6, 2007) In the first volume of a triple report on global warming, published in February 2007, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said see levels would climb between 18 and 59 centimeters by 2100. According to OECD (December 2007), of 136 port ci...