KOTA KINABALU: Kinabalu Park, the national park surrounding Mount Kinabalu, has been listed among the 10 World Heritage sites that emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb, according to researchers.
A report on Thursday (Oct 28) released by Unesco on scientific assessment done with the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), stated that the change from being carbon absorbers to carbon emitters is linked to climate change-fueled disasters and land-use in the past 20 years.
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