World Silent Day is being proposed as one of the way to anticipate the climate change in United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Bali Collaboration for Climate Change (KBPI) as the department that proposed the World Silent Day in gathering autographs to suppoort the idea. I Made Suarnatha, the coordinator of KBPI, said that the department is trying to collect 10 million autographs to gain the world acknowledgement and currently, 10,000 autographs had been collected.
“For those who wanted to support the World Silent Day could log on www.worldsilentday.org. This is the preliminary step for the campaign of the World Silent Day,” he added.
The World Silent Day is a way which is adopted from balinese culture to anticipate climate change. The concept was taken from Nyepi day where all of the Hindus didn’t conduct any activities for one whole day.
The concept is started to be accepted by several countries in the world and some even had been applied it but it didn’t accepted yet in UNFCC. Suarnatha said “several cities such as Sidney had started to carry out World Silent Day.”
Actually the idea of World Silent Day has been accepted by the world society because it emphasize on preserving the environment. However, it also needed more support to increase the spread or the program.
Based on the calculation of KBPI, the Nyepi day can decrease up to 23 million tons of carbon dioxide in one day. The World Silent Day is carried out on March 21st where all people throughout the world should stay in their houses for four hours started on 10 o’clock through 14 o’clock asn shutting down all electronics equipments and cars or motorcycles. “Everyone could contribute in decreasing green house gases which trigered the climate change,” Suarnatha said.
News by International Bali Post
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