Thousands How to Reduce Emissions

    TEMPO Interactive, Singapore - The light at Mezza9 Restaurant, Hotel Hyatt, Singapore, slowly began to dim. Fourteen people were engrossed in conversation while enjoying dinner on Tuesday last week was only realized when the room became dim, almost dark. "Maybe we've thrown out," said a reporter from the Bangkok Post, Umesh Pendi. Understandably, it was shown at 23:00 local time.
     An officer then entered the restaurant room and press a button to turn on the lights, so bright dining room again. "Sorry, here there are rules, after 21:00, the lights will be dimmed," said the officer. One effort, he explained, to save energy.
     According to the Chairman of the Sustainable Energy Association (Seas), Singapore, Edwin Khew, that country is implementing regulations to reduce emissions, one of them by way of reducing the use of electrical equipment at certain hours. "The government also provides incentives for buildings that reduce electricity usage,"
     Khew said, in a country with an area of 710.2 square kilometers, the government could not be planting trees to reduce emissions because of the narrow region. "We are also not likely to stop manufacturing activity because of where the economy running," he said.
     According Khew, there are two steps taken by the Singapore government to reduce emissions, which provide incentives to entrepreneurs interested in electrical energy savings and use the technology to produce renewable energy, such as thermal energy, wind, and waste.
     Government Affairs lion, Khew continued, also create a natural island and avoid the various technologies. Is Pulau Ubin, located in the northeast of Singapore, which became an island untouched by the changing times. "This is a place that is protected from urban development, convergence of development, and so on," he said.
     In this country there is also an example of environmentally friendly buildings or so-called "zero energy building". The building is located at Braddell Road is a building of education and research in the field of environment, Building and Construction Authority (BCA) Academy of the Built Environment.
     Building official is used on 26 October last year that have a source of primary energy from sunlight. (Solar panels) installed on the roof of the building to "capture" the sun, then stored in a "storage" as a special reserve of electrical energy for the night and when cloudy or rainy.
     Classrooms and offices are built from special materials to save energy. Glass building, for example, is made from e-glass which has a special coating to reduce solar radiation through glass. Energy saving lamps which are used equipped with a photosensor, which can dim and turn off automatically if the room light conditions. All of the electricity network, both for lighting to air conditioning systems, as well as uniform and controlled directly by the building management.
     Besides Singapore, some countries already have a zero energy building, such as China with the Pearl River Tower; Beddington zero energy housing project building in the UK; Googleplex, which is a Google search online headquarters in Mountain View, California, United States, and Vermont, which opened energyI zero school buildings, namely Putney School.
     As in the field of transportation, which also contributed to increased carbon dioxide emissions, many states have created programs, from motor vehicle-free day to limit the number of vehicles increase vehicle tax so that people switch to public transport capital, until the end of the even-odd license plate numbers of vehicles are allowed to pitch in road on certain days.From the calculations Khew, China is a country that was ranked first to utilize the largest solar rays to produce 20 thousand megawatts of energy and biomass energy to 30 thousand megawatts with a total energy efficiency reached 20 percent.
     Indonesia, according to Khew, can reach targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 26 percent in 2020 with a variety of ways, for example utilizing geothermal energy geothermal, biomass, and use of renewable technologies, like solar and wind energy pane.
     Coordinating Minister Hatta Rajasa said the government was preparing a national action plan to reduce carbon emissions through Presidential Regulation. Government, Hatta continued, also prepare the bank to hold the grant funds related to carbon emissions reduction program. Zulkifli Hasan, Minister of Forestry also has proposed five provinces that can be used as a pilot area of carbon emission reductions, namely Papua, West Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Jambi, and Riau.
Rini Kustiani | Various sources