Climate change action conference to be held in Hong Kong. On Saturday, October 3, prominent scientists, government leaders, members of media and citizens from China, Hong Kong, and Formosa (Taiwan) will convene to discuss ways to mitigate global warming.
With the theme of “Global Unity: Together in Saving Lives,” the conference will cover urgent environmental and health issues as well as constructive actions.
Specially invited as guest speaker is Supreme Master Ching Hai, who has graciously agreed to share her views, despite her full schedule.
Following the conference will be a ceremony honoring an Earth-protecting recipient of the Shining World Hero Award from Supreme Master Ching Hai, along with a concert celebrating the traditional Asian Moon Festival.
The event, to be broadcast live on Supreme Master Television, will begin on Saturday October 3, 2009, at 3 pm local time in Hong Kong, or 9 am Central European Time.
Our thankfulness, all involved in organizing this informative event for the public. We are grateful to Supreme Master Ching Hai for once again sharing her concern and insights during this crucial time. May the conference bring about the courageous actions needed to save our precious planet.
Desertification threatens large parts of Latin America. A two-week meeting dedicated to monitoring and halting the devastating effects of desertification is currently underway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As the Latin American country already most afflicted by desertification, 75% of Argentina has been deemed vulnerable to its effects.
In addition, more than half of the territories in Mexico and Paraguay are at risk.
Human activities such as deforestation, inappropriate farming irrigation methods and livestock overgrazing are among the factors cited as responsible for this situation.
According to a recent United Nations report, 125 million people in Latin America may be forced to migrate due to desertification.
We laud your dedicated concern, Latin American conference participants. Wishing you the best in finding the most sustainable ways to counter this and other dangerous global warming effects, for the benefit of all your fellow countrypersons.
As part of her continual efforts to raise awareness for averting a planetary crisis, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke during a January 2009 videoconference in Mongolia of the many effects and one solution for climate change.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : We are already facing so many untold natural disasters, on a daily basis such as earthquakes, severe storms ever seen before, volcanoes, ice melting and many island nations have sunk under the water already and many are sinking. And the climate has become very, very strange, like it became warm where it should be cold and it became cold where it should be hot.
And this can only be alleviated through a return to the ancient ways of our wiser elders,
one that exists in harmony with nature and respect of other beings, a true brotherhood of love with all.
We can still do that, it’s not too late.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : We should remind everyone to be veg, to invoke the mercy of the Buddhas, and we will be better protected.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48503Global warming summit convenes in Thailand. Officials from 190 nations united in Bangkok on Monday to begin a two-week meeting on a new climate change accord, which is to be finalized in Copenhagen in December.
Speaking at the event, scientists from the United Kingdom’s Met Office warned that without significant and quick reduction of greenhouse gases, global temperatures could rise four degrees Celsius by 2060, with areas of Africa and the Arctic increasing by 10 degrees Celsius.
This would threaten the water supply of half the world’s population. With other experts also cautioning that time is running out, United Nation's Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, said, “The Bangkok talks must end in an evident spirit of cooperation and with evident progress.”
Executive Secretary de Boer, British Met Office scientists and all participants of this important meeting, we sincerely appreciate your commitment to addressing this real and urgent planetary crisis.
With the grace of the Providence, may this meeting be fruitful in uplifting global standards for sustainable living on our shared Earthly abode.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/28/met-office-study-global-warming http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/09/200992861348234448.htmlExtra NewsSir Paul McCartney of Britain, vegetarian and founder of the Meat Free Monday campaign, has been invited to address the European Parliament the week before the Denmark summit and speak on the need to reduce or eliminate meat to halt global warming.
http://www.theparliament.com/no_cache/latestnews/news-article/newsarticle/mccartney-invited-to-speak-at-eu-parliament-hearing/French officials are investigating 300 health complaints reported in the region of Brittany that are linked to toxic algae formed by agricultural runoff of fertilizers and animal waste from factory farms, which is already known to have caused the death of a horse within 30 seconds after it stepped in the toxic algae ooze.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090925/toxic_algae_090925/20090925?hub=SciTech http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/08/agricultural-runoff-turns-french-beach-into-deadly-algae-stew/Organized jointly by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Russian Academy of Sciences, the 50-member Russian-American Long-term Census of the Arctic team returns from a six-week voyage, with initial reports of the dire global warming effects they observed in the Arctic region.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE58F6UV20090917 Deforestation, regional conflict and water are causing heavy losses in the wildlife populations of India’s Jammu
and Kashmir state, with studies showing that the 300 species of birds once inhabiting the region have nearly disappeared.
http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/18913/93/Warning that global agreement is now in jeopardy, United Kingdom Prime Minister Gordon Brown begins encouraging international leaders commitment to attending December’s conference in Copenhagen, Denmark to assure the achievement of a new climate change accord.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/20/gordon-brown-copenhagen-climate-change
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