Nominations are now open for the 2021 Mekong Hero at www.MekongHeroes.com, and the winners will be announced at the 2nd Virtual Destination Mekong Summit in May 2021.
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Environment ministry to be proactive in handling environmental issues
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has changed from a passive to a proactive role in handling environmental issues over the last several years, after the country confronted major challenges brought about by an unsustainable economic growth model and climate change.
Youth group set to clean up Phnom Penh, major towns
The Creal Cambodia founder added that there was greater participation from youth groups than initially expected with over 1,000 young people applying in the first month.
Indigenous people ‘under threat’ from Asia clean energy push
Dirty This biomass plant among a “concerning rise” in human rights violations in renewable energy projects, recording about 200 allegations of land rights and indigenous rights abuses, displacement, violence and threats in the last decade.
Laos Planned Railways: Opening a National Rail Network in 2021
The first Laos national rail line is to open at the end of the year with the China-Laos, Kunming-Vientiane link. This will change Laos from ‘land-locked’ to ‘land-linked’ and is hoped to spur significant foreign investment into Laos.
Construction Delays Mean Continued Homelessness for Survivors of Laos’ Worst Dam Disaster
“The company has formulated a new plan under which it will complete 496 houses by the end of the year, 440 of which will be complete before May. About 35 percent of these 440 homes are already complete. But for the remaining 204 homes, we have to wait for the land,” an official said.
Kingdom vows to reduce emissions
“By 2030 we vow that Cambodia will achieve a 40 per cent reduction in our greenhouse gas emissions relative to the scale of our socio-economic development or the equivalent of about 65 million tonnes of green house gases.”
Four International Water Stories to Watch in 2021
Scott Moore, a senior fellow at The Water Center at Penn, said to watch for rising tensions over water use in the basin, which is already beset by sand mining, saltwater encroachment, land subsidence, and a dam-building spree in countries besides China.
Blue Mekong in northeastern region of Thailand is bad omen
Local fishery officials said the water turned blue because it was stagnant, resulting from dam construction in a neighboring country. Without a solution, fish in the Mekong River would be extinct, plankton and dissolved oxygen would decline and its ecosystem would be ruined.
Dams upstream slowly killing the mighty Mekong
Thailand’s Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) on Tuesday released satellite images showing a drastic drop in the water level of Mekong River this Sunday compared to images captured on January 3.