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More than 90 per cent of HCM City’s CO2 emissions in 2013 came from transportation and stationary energy, which refers to fuel consumption for electricity generation, manufacturing, construction and others like domestic heating.
Air pollution caused by a plastic bag recycling factory in Dong Nai Province.
Transportation accounted for 45 per cent of the emissions, mainly from vehicle exhaust.
The figures were released at a workshop to review the outcomes of the HCM City component of a project to “Support the Planning and Implementation of Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions” (SPI-NAMA) initiated by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on Thursday.
JICA collaborated with the city to enable a proper understanding and continuous monitoring of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the city and completed its GHG inventory for 2013.
According to a JICA report, Viet Nam’s CO2 emissions in 2010 and HCM City’s in 2013 were 246.8 million tonnes and 38.5 million tonnes respectively.
Their corresponding populations were 87.1 million and 7.8 million, meaning HCM City was responsible for 16 per cent of the country’s CO2 emissions despite having only 9 per cent of its population.
The report also shows that compared with other city members of C40, a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change, HCM City’s emissions per capita were 4.2 tonnes, or similar to Seoul (4.6 tonnes), London (4.7 tonnes), and Buenos Aires (4.4 tonnes) though it trailed far behind them in terms...
For computing a city’s emissions, the GHG emitted to produce power elsewhere for its use, are taken into account.
These findings are essential for HCM City to find ways to cut its emissions to help the country meet its GHG emission targets, experts have said.
The technical co-operation project aims to enhance the capacity of the Vietnamese Government in planning and implementing NAMAs.
It included two components: one at the national level to enhance the capacity of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to facilitate the development and implementation of NAMAs, and the other at the local level to enhance the capacity of HCM City to quantify GHG emissions and reductions.
Kakioka Naoki, a senior representative from JICA, said all the expected outputs have been achieved from the project.
“The manuals for MRV [Measurement, Reporting and Verification] and GHG inventory at the city level have been developed successfully.
Nguyễn Văn Tuệ, director general of the ministry’s climate change department, hailed the outcomes of the project and expressed the hope that the ministry would soon adopt the two manuals as a practical reference for the implementation of a Government decree on a roadmap for reducing GHG emissions.
Founded in 1979 as a sole proprietorship, Fisher Investments offers global equity management for high net worth and institutional clients. Fisher Investments manages investment portfolios for each client based on individual investing goals, time horizon, cash flow requirements, outside holdings and tax status, along wi...
AMERICAN SITCOM Roseanne has been cancelled after the show’s star compared one of Barack Obama’s former advisers to an ape.
Roseanne Barr, the show’s central character, said in a now deleted tweet: "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj."
The initials VJ refer to Valerie Jarrett, an African-American and former advisor to former US president Obama.
Barr’s tweet was sent in response to another tweet that accused Jarrett of being part of a cover-up by the Obama administration.
ABC, the network behind the Roseanne reboot, its top programme, made the decision to pull the show after the tweet, which was published on Monday, came to light.
ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said: "Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show."
Barr has apologised for the tweet.
Director Ava DuVernay tweeted her support for Dungey, the first African-American president of ABC Entertainment Group, after the decision to drop Roseanna was announced.
ICM, Barr’s talent agency, has said that it will not continue to represent the actress.
This is not the first time that the reboot has been at the centre of a race row.
Dan followed up her comments with: "We missed all the shows about black and Asian families."
Roseanne responded with: "They're just like us. There, now you're all caught up."
The dialogue is understood to refer to ABC's Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat, both shows air on the network during the time slot mentioned.
Inflation weighs down UK wage growth as UK unemployment remains at four-decade low \| City A.M.
Employees received a bumper pay rise in the three months to the end of August, data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed today, showing wages have grown at their fastest rate since the financial crisis.
Employees’ average weekly earnings received a bumper year-on-year rise of 3.1 per cent excluding bonuses, or 2.7 per cent including bonuses, the ONS said.
However, inflation ate into the salary bumps, cutting wage growth in real terms back to 0.7 per cent excluding bonuses, or 0.4 per cent including bonuses.
That saw staff earn weekly wages of £462 before tax accounting for inflation, up from £459 a week a year earlier.
The ONS said that weekly wages are still £11 below the pre-financial crisis peak of £473 per week in March 2008.
Sacha Chorley, portfolio manager of Quilters Investors, previously Old Mutual, called the wage growth "a welcome boost" before this month's Budget and "long, long overdue".
“We should not get too far ahead of ourselves," Chorley added. "Rising wages are welcome, but they are still only fractionally above inflation despite a tight labour market. Normally a shortage of available workers to fill positions would have been expected to push up wages before now.
“Looking at the knock-on benefits for businesses, the high street has come under pressure from a multitude of competing pressures in recent times. Pay running above inflation means consumer spending power receives a small boost, so at the margins this should provide a simultaneous benefit for the economy in terms of co...
Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, added that wage growth has consistently beaten inflation since February.
“The news has raised hopes that the lowest unemployment figures for four decades are finally feeding through into higher pay," she added. "This is fuelling optimism that people will feel more confident about spending, which in turn could push dwindling retail spending higher, and raise the current low growth expectatio...
The wage growth came as UK unemployment stayed at its lowest level since the mid-1970s over summer.
Employment figures between June and August stood at 32.4m, a year-on-year increase of 289,000 to account for 75.5 per cent of the population.
Britain’s unemployment rate stood at four per cent, its lowest since early 1975, equivalent to 1.36m people looking for work.
However, the number of working age people not seeking jobs or not available to work increased, according to the ONS’s Labour Force Survey.
ONS head of labour market David Freeman said: “People’s regular monthly wage packets grew at their strongest rate in almost a decade but, allowing for inflation, the growth was much more subdued.
“The number of people in work remained at a near record high, while the unemployment rate was at its lowest since the mid-1970s.
NEW YORK - Some lucky fliers capitalized on a computer glitch Thursday and scored some really cheap flights on Delta Air Lines.
From about 10 a.m. to noon ET, certain Delta fares on the airline's own website and other airfare booking sites were showing up incorrectly, offering some savvy bargain hunters incredible deals. A roundtrip flight between Cincinnati and Minneapolis for February was being sold for just $25.05 and a roundtrip between Cin...
Trebor Banstetter, a spokesman for the Atlanta-based airline, said the problem has been fixed but "Deltawill honor any fares purchased at the incorrect price."
Jackie Fanelli, 27, learned about the super cheap fares from a friend's Facebook page. She attempted to purchase a $98 roundtrip first-class ticket from her home city of Baltimore to Honolulu on Priceline.com but the transaction didn't process before the deal was shut down.
"It was too good to be true," Fanelli said. "I try to go away every other year and this was not the year."
Delta's website was having lingering problems from the increased traffic Thursday afternoon.
"It looks like Delta's programmers had a little too much eggnog yesterday," joked George Hobica, founder of AirfareWatchDog.com, which promotes airfare sales.
It's likely that the airline tried to tweak its fares with a $10 or $20 system-wide change and a junior programmer made a mistake or two, he said.
"People just go wild. People have been bragging about booking six first-class tickets to Hawaii," Hobica said. "People hate the airlines so much that when this happens, they say: I'm going to get back at you for the time you broke my suitcase and didn't pay for it."
Other airlines have faced the same issue. In September United Airlines experienced an error in filing fares to its computer system. Many customers got tickets for $5 or $10, paying only the cost of the Sept. 11 security fee.
New Department of Transportation regulations, aimed at truth in advertising, require airlines to honor anymistake fares offered.
In an election on Tuesday, Los Angeles voters rejected, 55 percent to 44 percent, a proposal to increase the city sales tax to 9.5 percent from 9 percent, NBC News reports.
The city's mayor and the police chief had both supported the tax increase, Measure A, which was described on the ballot as the "neighborhood public safety and vital city services funding and accountability measure."
At least Los Angeles voters had a chance to vote directly on the tax increase, which is more than can be said for a lot of other plans raise taxes.
Stanford has only invited a handful of writers and even fewer artists to deliver the Commencement address. A quick scan of past speakers shows that we prefer political leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and the occasional television journalist. Yet, over the past four years, Stanford has changed a tremendous amount.
This accusation is absurd. First, the people delivering the presentation, Anson Chan and Martin Lee, are not Occupy Central leaders. Second, even the real leaders of Occupy Central have only marginal power over the demonstrations on the ground. Mr. Sur’s caricature of democracy in Hong Kong bastardizes their decades-lo...
On April 25, the University announced that Ike’s Place will be replaced by an eatery operated by Stanford Residential and Dining Enterprises (R&DE) in September. R&DE has not yet announced the details of its winning restaurant concept. In the meantime, students have been left to wonder how the decision to award the con...
Kharis Templeman, program manager for the Taiwan Democracy Project at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), studies democratization, dominant-party electoral regimes and Pacific Asia. As a Taiwan scholar, he has keenly followed the protest movement that occupied the Legislative Yuan on March 18,...
Fourteen graduate students will vie for positions on the Graduate Student Council (GSC), the representative body for just over 60 percent of students at Stanford, in this year’s ASSU elections. Eight current Councilors, including GSC Co-chairs Bryce Anzelmo and Trevor Martin, will seek re-election.
The philosopher Ivan Illich played provocateur in 1975 when he asserted that the greatest threat to health is, in fact, modern medicine.
Can a gay man be re-elected in South Carolina? Rep. Jason Elliott of Greenville faces a primary that might test the modern Republican party.
The narrative took hold in the months following the summer primary and leading up to what seemed to be an inevitable outcome two Novembers ago.
Republican State Rep. Jason Elliott would be South Carolina’s first openly gay legislator — elected, no less, from Greenville’s heavily conservative District 22 that includes Bob Jones University, an emblem of staunch social and religious conservatism.
It was a sign, the story goes, of a shift in the South Carolina GOP to a larger tent that could include a broader constituency.
But a neophyte Republican challenger emerged after the fact, mounting an ultimately unsuccessful write-in campaign based on the notion that Elliott wasn’t forthcoming during the primary with the fact that he was gay and that voters didn’t have enough information to make their decision.
There is no air of mystery now, if there ever was to begin with.
The Republican primary is a little more than a week away.
The narrative will be put to the test.
Elliott faces two challengers who both presently and in the past have raised questions about his sexual orientation — though today they offer no specific objections to his voting record.
The challenger in November 2016, engineer Brett Brocato, has returned for the primary on June 12. This time around he is declining to address his past assertions that Elliott both misled voters and doesn't represent the moral values of his constituency.
Another challenger, attorney Samuel Harms, is making Elliott's sexual orientation his top issue.
The theory that state Republicans have shifted toward a more inclusive stance toward the issue could be affirmed in the voting booth, but perhaps not completely, said Scott Huffmon, a Winthrop University political science professor.
“If he is re-elected, it certainly could be seen as a break in expectations of the South Carolina Republican Party, no doubt," Huffmon said. "But the fact that he has someone running against him merely because he’s gay would mean that they haven’t broken completely away from that.
In a recent interview with The Greenville News, Elliott said allegations that he misled voters during the June 2016 primary where he beat four-term incumbent Wendy Nanney in a landslide are "completely false."
Elliott, a family law attorney, said he had assumed most people knew about his sexual orientation because he didn't hide it. He said the issue didn't come up until after he won the primary.
In the end, he said, he has had one of the most conservative voting records in what is perceived as one of South Carolina's most conservative districts.
In answer to a questionnaire emailed to each candidate by The Greenville News, Harms listed one sentence to describe the top issue he's running on: "In the last election, why did Jason Elliott publicly announce that he is proud to be a homosexual right after the polls closed?"
The former head of the Greenville County Republican Party offered little elaboration through email. Harms, who identifies himself as a husband and father and a member of the Christian Brookwood Church, declined multiple requests to talk via telephone.
"I think Jason Elliott misled the district voters," Harms wrote in answer to a request to elaborate.
When asked if he disagreed with any of Elliott's votes as a representative, how he might vote differently and what he would disagree with Elliott on, Harms responded with one sentence, "I do not support gay marriage."
In October 2016, Brocato mounted his write-in campaign after he said conservative Christian residents approached him to run "so people with conservative sexual values would have an alternative."
Brocato characterizes himself as a married father of four who a decade ago "surrendered his life to Christ."
He declined multiple opportunities to address his past assertions regarding Elliott's sexual orientation and whether Elliott misled voters.
“Certainly, those questions were raised to us by voters, but I’d like to concentrate on the race this time around," Brocato said. "The voters can decide what type of person they want representing them, so we’re presenting our case, and I know the other candidates are presenting theirs, and the voters can decide."
When asked about criminal history as part of The Greenville News' customary background checks for candidates, Brocato said that while he was an engineering student in 2003, he was arrested and charged with "driving while intoxicated," though he was ultimately exonerated.
Brocato said the incident "shook my world," but "despite being declared not guilty, I recognized that my action was irresponsible. Thankfully, God used that event to begin changing my life permanently."
Brocato said public safety would be one of his top priorities in office, and he took the opportunity to criticize Elliott for a vote on making "alcohol more accessible around churches, schools and playgrounds."
The act, which in May passed the House 99-5, allows on-premises service of alcohol in the proximity to churches, schools and playgrounds so long as the governing bodies of those organizations affirmatively state they don't object to the location.
In response, Elliott said in a statement, "My opponent’s attempt to deflect attention from his DUI arrest is sad. What kind of person blames an elected official for his own personal transgression? I hope that Mr. Brocato got the help he needs."
In an email, Harms said, "I have no comment on Brocato's arrest."
However, while there is no objective study, there is the possibility that the district is changing as Greenville re-urbanizes and becomes more dense, which would result in an influx of new voters, Huffmon said.
When the 2020 census is complete, he said, district lines could be redrawn in such a way that, for instance, Bob Jones is no longer included.
In keeping with the current perceived political makeup of the district, Elliott makes it a point to highlight just how conservative he says his votes are — voting against last year's gas tax increase for road infrastructure; defending Second Amendment rights in part by calling for armed resource officers in every schoo...
“Not every student needs to go to a four-year school," he said. "We say that, and we need to put our efforts behind that. I’m an effective conservative leader with a proven record of fighting for Greenville."

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