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Video about DEWATS
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Since 2009 LIRE collaborates with BORDA (Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association) to disseminate Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Solutions (DEWATS) to reduce illnesses which are related to insufficient sanitary conditions and environmental pollution by sewage and wastewater. To impart a better understanding about the DEWATS approach a camera team accompanied our engineers and community facilitators to create a video which visualises our work. The video shows our DEWATS-engineers and community facilitators during the whole process of implementation at Khoualuang Primary School in Vientiane Capital. Khoualuang Primary School’s compound was flooded up to 30cm height after every heavy rain. The surrounding canal system was to shallow both to deal with the high amount of solid waste and to cover high amounts of water coming from the main road and the neighborhood area. As a result bad odor occurred and the surrounding area was steadily polluted. Last but not least, toilets and basins were in very bad condition so that a save and hygienic...
Read moreStart signal given for the 7th DEWATS plant for Khoualuang Temple and neighboured community
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
The scene of action is the Khoualuang Temple in the heart of Vientiane Capital. Already two years ago, a study about “Improvement of Water Environment in Vientiane City” identified this area as notably suitable for implementing a Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Solution (DEWATS). As a result, Khoualuang Primary School was identified for the first pilot project to improve the water environment going into the highly polluted drainage channels. Almost two years later, LIRE-BORDA is about to construct of their 7th DEWATS plant in Lao PDR in line with the Lao Pilot Program for Narrowing the Development Gap towards ASEAN Integration (LPP Project). The LPP Project aims for the collaboration between private and public sectors to make an appropriate and sustainable use of nature, culture and history. The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is supporting these joint efforts for improved sanitation within the sub-program “Clean, Green, Beautiful, Model Community” and is covering all of the implementation costs. For LIRE-BORDA it is the second joint...
Read moreOutcomes from Climate Change discussions in COP 17
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Late on Saturday, rather early on Sunday morning, it is around 6 am that the delegates gathered in Durban to finally reached a deal to seal the COP 17. This agreement reached two days beyond Friday’s scheduled closing cannot be considered as a full success of the negotiation but match the unfortunately expected outcomes. According to UNFCCC, these outcomes cover a wide range of topics, notably the establishment of a second commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol, a decision on long-term cooperative action under the Convention, and the operationalization of the Green Climate Fund. However, what they call a second commitment of Kyoto Protocol (KP), the only legally binding agreement, looks like more to a road map with objectives in 2015 and application in 2020. On the second main chapter, financing of climate change consequences, despite the disagreements a deal was reached on common but differentiated responsibilities and the funding mechanism, known as the Green Climate Fund got its framework but without fund!
Read moreCOP 17, Durban, summary of the first week
Friday, 09 December 2011
The first week of negotiations at the COP 17 started last Monday 28th November and intended to prepare the negotiations by presenting a draft decision on each sub-group of negotiations to be further agreed on week 2. According to NGOs this first week has been sound and very smooth. The main points have addressed both the Kyoto protocol second commitment and climate financing. No-one is surprised at the expected positions of the negotiating parties and once again the main issues have centered around Annex I countries (countries that historically emit high levels of Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG)) especially the USA and leading developing countries (like China, India and Brazil). Kyoto Protocol The talks have been dominated by the fate of the Kyoto Protocol (KP), which expires next year in 2012. Expectations are high, especially for the least developed countries, as the protocol represents the only legally binding agreement in action which commits Annex I (A1) countries to reducing their emissions. Tensions have continued between...
Read moreLIRE attends the COP-17 as observer party
Monday, 28 November 2011
Lao Institute for Renewable Energy has been selected to join the delegation representing the Lao Civil Society Organizations (CSO) at the Conference Of the Parties number 17 (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa between 28th November and 9th December 2011. This high level meeting is to address the international response to climate change. Almost two decades ago, 154 nations signed an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and their resulting effects on climate, and how to cope with whatever impacts of climate change which were, by then, inevitable. This was in 1992; in 1995 the convention initiated negotiations which lead to the Kyoto Protocol. To date, UNFCCC numbers 195 member countries, who will all gather in Durban in November-December this year. More than 1000 non-profit organizations will participate as observers. LIRE, a national CSO, for the first time will be present thanks...
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