PETALING JAYA: A whopping RM300 for a few hours of electricity per day. This is the sum some villagers in rural Sabah had to fork out for electricity in a month.
It’s historic, it’s a milestone when Kota Kinabalu City Hall hosted the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy or GCoM National Workshop on Climate Adaptation and Climate Finance August 15-17.
EU leadership, EU Ambassador Michalis Rokas who delivered a robust speech, underscored this was serious business.
Jacqueline Chang, newly appointed Country Coordinator – Malaysia GCoM Asia Project, told Daily Express in a post-workshop interview she hoped this will inspire robust climate actions across Malaysia
1. United States
Harbor porpoises have made a comeback after the banning of gill netting in key coastal communities of California, new research shows. Gill nets are a cheap and effective way for commercial fishers to catch loads of sea bass and halibut by the gills, but they also wreak havoc on other species, including sea otters, some sea birds, and the lesser-known harbor porpoise. The latter exclusively lives in shallow waters. Being unable to detect the nylon mesh using echolocation, the porpoises would frequently drown after getting tangled in gill nets. Aerial surveys for harbor porpoises, which began in 1986, allowed researchers to identify and track four distinct porpoise populations off California’s coast as gill netting bans rolled out over the following decade. The latest assessment of that data shows the groups affected by gill netting have doubled their populations since the bans were put in place, and are now beginning to stabilize. It’s the first documented case