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Sat, 06/21/2008 - 20:17
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Bangkok, 23 municipalities exchange ideas on global warming
BANGKOK, June 21(TNA) -- Bangkok governor Apirak Kosayothin and community leaders from 23 provinces nationwide on Saturday attended a workshop aimed at exchanging ideas on global warming and how to contain its negative impacts.
Participants at the workshop also laid out strategies on environmental preservation and measures to cope locally with global warming on a sustainable basis.
Mr. Apirak, who chaired the workshop, said he hoped the activity would lead to continued cooperation between Bangkok and municipalities in the provinces as well as in regard to solving global warming problems in the future.
Giving further explanations on the impact of global warming on the Thai capital, Mr. Apirak said it causes infectious diseases and erosion of tsea coastline due to a significant release of carbon dioxide in the capital.
Discharge of the gas is much more than other major cities in the world including London, San Francisco and Toronto.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration which administers Bangkok along with 36 public and private organizations have launched campaigns to make Bangkok green since May 2007, he said. The campaigns are aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions by15 per cent in 2012.
Participants at the workshop also laid out strategies on environmental preservation and measures to cope locally with global warming on a sustainable basis.
Mr. Apirak, who chaired the workshop, said he hoped the activity would lead to continued cooperation between Bangkok and municipalities in the provinces as well as in regard to solving global warming problems in the future.
Giving further explanations on the impact of global warming on the Thai capital, Mr. Apirak said it causes infectious diseases and erosion of tsea coastline due to a significant release of carbon dioxide in the capital.
Discharge of the gas is much more than other major cities in the world including London, San Francisco and Toronto.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration which administers Bangkok along with 36 public and private organizations have launched campaigns to make Bangkok green since May 2007, he said. The campaigns are aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions by15 per cent in 2012.
