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Ageing Asia problem 'serious as climate change'
Longer lifespans, falling fertility rates and growing ranks of elderly people in Asia can pose problems as serious as the impact of climate change, a leading expert warned Monday.
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Asia Society
Asia Society is the leading global organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people, leaders, and institutions of Asia and the United States. We seek to enhance dialogue, encourage creative expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy, business, education, arts, and culture.
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Southeast Asia: Sea Level Risks
Global Warming Art: This is a topographic map designed to emphasize portions of Southeast Asia that are near sea level and hence could potentially be vulnerable to sea level rise.
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The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review
This report provides a review of the economics of climate change in the Southeast Asian region. It confirms that the region is highly vulnerable to climate change and demonstrates that a wide range of adaptation measures are already being applied.
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China Watch
China Watch reports on energy, agriculture, population, water, health, and the environment in China—with an emphasis on big-picture analysis relevant to policy makers, the business community, and non-governmental organizations.
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China Today
This link is to the China Today web site's segment on the Chinese government. Unless you are familiar with Chinese characters, this is the best we can do at the moment.
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China: Ministry of Environmental Protection
Mission: Prevent and control environmental pollution, protect nature and ecology, supervise nuclear safety, safeguard public health and environmental safety, and promote the harmony between man and nature.
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China: Ministry of Science and Technology
MOST is responsible for drafting the National Basic Research Program, the National High-tech R&D Program and the S&T Enabling Program. MOST aims to serve socio-economic growth by coordinating basic research, frontier technology research, research on social service, key technology and common technology.
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Japan: Ministry of the Environment
The ministry in Japan responsible for environmental affairs. Good link and statistics areas.
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The World Data Centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG)
Serves to gather, archive and provide data on greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, CFCs, N2O, surface ozone, etc.) and related gases (CO, NOx, SO2, VOC, etc.) in the atmosphere and ocean, as observed under GAW and other programmes. This web site provides information on greenhouse gases, including WDCGG publications and measurement data contributed by organizations and individual researchers around the world.
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Korea: Ministrry of the Environment
The Ministry of Environment has facilitated infrastructures to establish a sustainable green country based on the spirit of respect for life. At the same time, the Ministry has continued to make efforts in the creation of healthy and sound environment, enhancement of international cooperation, and encouragement of citizens’ participation in environmental issues.
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Australian Academy of Science: The Science of Climate Change
The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers. Based on a series of key questions, this publication sets out to explain the current situation in climate science, including where there is consensus in the scientific community and where uncertainties exist.
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Australia: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
The Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts develops and implements national policy, programs and legislation to protect and conserve Australia's environment and heritage and to promote Australian arts and culture.
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Australia: Global Warming's Canary in the Coal Mine
In drought-riddled Australia, the effects of global warming are rippling through the economy -- effecting everything from farming to mining. It may even swing the next national election.
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TerraNature: Working to protect New Zealand's biodiversity.
Working to conserve land and marine habitat, and protect New Zealand's biodiversity. With the world's most extensive collection of flightless birds, 80 percent endemism in plants, gigantism in insects (tusked weta left) and prehistoric living fossils preceding dinosaurs, the country is a biological treasure chest.
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Australia: Department of Climate Change
The Department's role is to lead the development and coordination of Australia's climate change policies. We are responsible for policy advice, implementation and programs in three areas: Mitigation, through reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, including the design and implementation of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme; Adaption to the unavoidable impacts of climate change; Helping to shape a global solution.
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New Zealand: Ministry for the Environment
We work to achieve good environmental leadership and decision making at all levels so that we can deliver the environment that New Zealanders expect and deserve. On this website you can find out about issues that affect the environment, environmental laws and treaties and environmental reporting. There's also information on what you can do for the environment, copies of our publications and information about our organisation.
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New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
NIWA's mission is to conduct leading environmental science to enable the sustainable management of natural resources for New Zealand and the planet.
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Indonesia: Ministry of the Environment
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Malaysia: Department of the Environment
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
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Rep. of the Philippines: Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources
The Department is mandated to be the primary agency responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment and natural resources.
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Rep. of the Philippines: The Science of Climate Change
There is growing evidence that human-made pollution is making the planet warmer than tolerable. According to experts, the years 2005 and 1998 were the warmest years of the last millennium while the 1990s was the warmest decade in the history of the earth’s temperature. Climate change is now a reality but what it is exactly?
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The Politics of Climate Change in Asia
The comparison of climate change politics across Asia’s widely disparate countries has yielded some fascinating insights. Asia-Pacific countries divide roughly into two groups.
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Global warming worse in Southeast Asia
AN Asian Development Bank study published last April reveals that global warming is worse in Southeast Asia than the rest of the world and will have a devastating economic impact on the region. Southeast Asia contributes 12 percent of total carbon emissions.
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Lao PDR: Department of Statistics
The need to depend on statistics in decision-making has increased not only in socio-economic development planning but also in follow-ups and evaluations of the national objectives such as stopping opium poppy growing in 2005, stabilizing slash-and-burn cultivation and eradicating poverty in 2010, and freeing Lao PDR from the status of least developed country in 2020.
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