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Cristiano Ronaldo To Champion Mangrove Conservation In Indonesia

From Press Release: Real Madrid star named Ambassador for Bali-based Mangrove Care Forum

Singapore, 11 March 2013 – Real Madrid’s soccer star, Cristiano Ronaldo has agreed to champion the conservation of mangroves in Indonesia, the Artha Graha Peduli Foundation announced today.

The Foundation named Ronaldo, Ambassador for the Bali – based Forum Peduli Mangrove (Mangrove Care Forum).

The Forum Peduli Mangrove is supported by five Community Empowerment Organisations from regencies at the southern part of Benoa Bay in Bali. The Forum, to be launched in the next two months, aims to raise public awareness of the importance of conserving mangrove forests, encourage community action to clean and preserve them, and restore the biodiversity of the mangrove ecosystem.

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The Good Climate Change Infographic

Good list of climate change outcomes.

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Sustainable Events Management at Earth Hour 2013

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We are pleased to announce that Olive Ventures is partnering with Earth Hour 2013 in Singapore to deliver our Sustainable Events Management Program for Dance 2 Power Earth Hour!

We look forward to continuing the push sustainability in events management, and spreading awareness about carbon conservation. Watch this space, we’ve got more news on this front coming up!

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Carbon Footprinting Services (ISO 14064 / GHG Protocol)

Increasingly, organisations are required to report their sustainability efforts. Increasingly as well, many (in Singapore) see that there is a benefit to moving past traditional CSR type non-financial metrics to include measures of material use, water consumption and carbon footprint.

Carbon is increasingly an important aspect of these trends in sustainability reporting, due to the urgent global attention to climate change. Relating back to sustainability reporting, it is for example, one of the items within the Global Reporting Initiative framework, and increasingly, “Green” Certifications are stipulating a requirement or advocating that companies measure their GHG emissions.

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Environmental Concerns “At Record Lows”: Global Poll

From Reuters & GlobeScan: Canada-based research group GlobeScan surveyed 22,812 people from 22 countries, asking them to rate the seriousness of six issues – air pollution, water pollution, species loss, automobile emissions, fresh water shortages and climate change.

On average, 49 percent of people surveyed said climate change was a “very serious” concern and 50 percent said the same for biodiversity loss. The highest level of concern was about fresh water shortages, with 58 percent of people rating this as a “very serious” concern.

“Scientists report that evidence of environmental damage is stronger than ever but our data shows that economic crisis and a lack of political leadership mean that the public are starting to tune out,” said Doug Miller, chairman of GlobeScan.

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Here’s a big list of articles / stuff to catch up with the ongoing Climate Change negotiations in Doha

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Instep Sustainable Events Programme (ISEP) to switch over to ISO 20121

We are pleased to announce that the ISEP (Instep Sustainable Events Programme) will incorporate the recently released ISO 20121.

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