Asian Countries Are among Top Achievers on Sustainable Energy Progress

Countries in Asia are creating an essential part in bringing a sustainable energy plan around the globe, according to the latest report of World Bank. But while the district takes a powerful action on making a guarantee to access electricity for people and using more recent renewable energy, there is opportunity for further advancement on energy productivity and access to cleaner and smoke-free cooking.

Asia is regarded for around sixty percent of the advancement worldwide on energy access and clean energy gals from 2010 to 2012 according the report named “Progress Toward Sustainable Energy: Global Tracking Framework 2015,” providing well beyond its part of population across the globe and energy consumption.

The presentation of Asia on broadening modern renewable energy was specifically powerful from solar, wind and geothermal sources. Whereas the consumption of modern renewable energy increased by four percent every year and in Asia that expansion was about double as fast at nearly eight percent.

But Asia’s improvement on decreasing the magnitude of energy of its economies with a combined growth rate of 1.3 percent every year, a frequently used measure of energy efficiency straggled behind the average of 1.7 percent worldwide.

E. Mealey

Millions of children abused in East Asia, Pacific – UNICEF

According to the report from United Nations’ children’s fund UNICEF, more than thirty percent of children from East Asia and Pacific are victims of child abuse.

They put forward for consideration that one out of ten children suffers physical abuse and 30.3 percent are affected. The East Asia and Pacific is a place for most number of children which has five hundred eighty million children or more than a quarter of the children around the globe.

Extreme physical abuse that results to injury is widespread, affecting about one in four children in other regional areas.

Based on the report, they discovered that fourteen to thirty percent of young children suffer forced sex, from 13.8 percent in the Mariana Islands to 29.3 percent in the Marshall Islands.

Most of the children’s first encounter in sexual intercourse is forced and girls are generally having higher cases than boys.

There is a development in the study about the subject but many countries in the district have limited detailed information on child abuse.

Victims of child abuse are more likely to be weak or impaired, begin to have psychological problems, suicidal tendency, show physical manifestation and exposed to a high level of danger.

The influence of abuse is increasing in quantity for those children who are repeatedly abused and far more likely to suffer critical extensive effect.

In North Korea and China, most of the children suffer from emotional abuse. Child labor in Vietnam and Cambodia is rampant which ranges from 6.5 percent in Vietnam to 56 percent in Cambodia.

T. Win

China flouts efforts to protect world’s wildlife

There was disapproval when a well-respected non-government group from UK published a report claiming that the presidential plane of China was used twice in year 2009 and 2013 to illegally move the ivory of Tanzania.

The issue seems only to be intensifying as the capital of China increases. Some incidents have portrayed the critical pictured of a Chinese government selecting to take for granted or even promote the violation of international policies on wildlife protection.

According to the one representative of a two-week convention which tackles the reserve, which had been in the efforts over three decades.

Any person who’s aware to the China’s plan for development more than the last three decades should expect that Beijing prioritizes economic interests compared to environmental interests. China’s well known air pollution is in extensive part, the outcome of this thought.

The question is what will be the plan of the people who supervise the activity. China is sensitive to the point of view of other countries about the topic and officers face at least some internal pressure from Chinese advocates or acts for the protection and preservation of the environment and wildlife, who regard with disgust the illegal wildlife trade. To some extent, public humiliation and public education campaigns have made a difference to Chinese customer reaction.

A.Minter