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Here is the result of bilateral discussion (Indonesia - Nepal)
The Nepal issue is deforestation for Coffee Planting. The main problem in Nepal as the student and the principle of Nepal's school informed during our discussion is the affect of deforestation. The effort of getting better life from planting coffee in turned out getting bad effect of Climate Change. Flood is one of big natural disaster. Besides, the Indonesia issue, belong my school which located in coal mining industries surrounds, we focus on how to educate the students to do Good Mining Practices by student's research and take action to manage the waste of coal mining to get renewable energy.
Exploring natural resources without destroying our environment. Balancing economic growth and sustainable environment.
Nice bilateral discussion.
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Hi Sri,
Thank you so much for your post for assignment 3a!
It sounds like you had a great and interesting conversation with your partner school in Nepal. It must be really interesting to speak to a class of students in another part of the world who have a different perspective on how climate change is affecting them.
Agriculture, in general, is being heavily impacted by climate change. Nepal’s example is coffee plantations. While, on the one hand, growing and exporting coffee is a financial benefit for Nepal (and hopefully for the actual farmers as well), they have to destroy their forests in order to do this. Did you discuss potential solutions to this issue, or ways in which the farmers or government are trying to lessen the impact? If you did, what was said?
I’m curious about your statement that in Indonesia you’re educating students about good mining practices in order to manage the waste of coal mining to get renewable energy. What are Indonesia’s coal mines doing to use their waste for renewable energy? Or do you mean that the students are doing research on ways to have renewable energy instead of coal? I’d love to hear more.
Alicia, University of Alberta
Alicia Cappello
Oct 19, 2017