Bhutan was awarded the “Top Country 2009"

Bhutan was awarded the “Top Country 2009” certificate by Wonderlust Travel magazine for being on the list of top 10 most favoured tourist destination in the world.

Bhutan was ranked fourth after Japan, Namibia, and New Zealand.

In 2005, Bhutan won the Silver award from the Wanderlust Travel Awards for the “Top Country”. The Wanderlust Travel Awards is on their 8th year and is voted by nearly 3,000 consumers and based on customer satisfaction levels over the past year. The Paro International Airport was listed as number two on the list of 10 Top Airports worldwide.

Wanderlust is a travel magazine based in the United Kingdom. This magazine has been in production for the last 15 years.

Source: Kuenselonline

UN conference on climate change in Bali, Indonesia begins

If Climate change has become a household word, it is for worrying reasons. The emission of greenhouse gases continues. Greenhouse gases are known to cause global warming and global warming is bad news for humanity.

On Tuesday at the launch of the Human Development Report on Fighting Climate Change, Bhutanese heard that if climate change continues unabated, many Himalayan glaciers will disappear in the next 28 years.

The Deputy Minister of the National Environment Commission Dasho Nado Rinchen says glaciers in Bhutan are already melting and creating lakes which are filling up fast.

While the international and the scientific community acknowledges that Bhutan has not contributed to climate change, we are already bearing the effects of climate change.

At the ongoing UN Conference on Climate Change, Bhutan will be joining other nations to discuss Climate Change. Bhutan signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and the Kyoto Protocol in 2002.

In an interview with BBS before he left for the climate change conference in Bali, Dasho Nado Rinchen said Bhutan will continue to support the protocol Beyond 2012.
Source: Kuenselonline