Climate Governance Integrity

  By : Abraham Sumalinog Latest Climate Change Issues in Korea A sounding almost ninety percent of climate scientists agreed that climate change is indeed happening. The consensus of climate change's truth and its adverse impacts do not take sides as it is being experienced by all people globally but in varying degrees. In South Korea, the most apparent impacts of climate change are the erratic changes in weather conditions, [1] including the unusual torrential rains and stronger storms, rising temperature and heatwaves, a regional adaptation of plants and fruit trees, dryer season that intensify forest fires, rising seawater levels, and water shortage, among other obvious signs. The untimely climate change crisis is due to the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG [2] ). Among those gases, carbon dioxide contributes an immense amount to the greenhouse effects, mainly caused by anthropogenic activities. We, human beings, are the culprits responsible for the devastating impacts ...

Bicycling Against Climate Change & Its Culprits By: Abraham Sumalinog This Monday is not an ordinary day. I got invited and registered to join a bicycling event for climate action. I got up early and rented online a bicycle near Yeouinaru Subway Station in Seoul. It was one fine sunny day. I took the subway and arrived an hour early at our meeting venue. Fortunately, two bicycles were left on their stands and were ready for use. Ttareungi, the name given to these green bicycles in Seoul, offers locals and foreign visitors access through online paid registration. Having secured my bicycle, I had the time to explore Yeouido Public Park. I enjoyed the pine trees, plants, flowers, green grass, bushes, and the pond that offers abode to other living creatures such as the crane and turtle, which surprisingly, I did not expect to see. Returning to the agreed meeting venue, participants of the day's event came one by one--some brought their bicycles while some rented Ttareungi.  Getting...