Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Change. Show all posts

Thursday, 12 January 2012

The change is massively 2011 the effects of climate change in Asia and in particular on Pakistan

Floods.

In 2011, we have seen cut some of the effects of climate change of extreme weather events. Global warming means more worse than Katrina and Gustav, floods in Asia, Eastern Europe, not rubble rains in Africa in the West of killer drought unexpected storms. These events have impeded more also yields, facilitate limited opportunities.

2012 will be the first year in which the world was feed the mouths of 7 billion in all 12 months. But this drought of winter in Eastern Europe affected the prices of cereal crops and hopes of the famine in Africa.

Flooding in the industrial zone.


Global warming caused the melting of the glaciers of the Himalayas. In the short term, this means an increased risk of flooding, erosion, landslides and DEBACLE at the Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the India of the North during the rainy season. Because the snowmelt coincides with the season of monsoon summer, is a step in the monsoon or the melt expected increase to contribute to flood disasters in Himalayan river basins.

The Organization of the United Nations considered flooding in Pakistan, as the largest humanitarian crisis in recent history. In an unprecedented move, it submits that the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the floods in Pakistan on the "global warming" has been officially support to make some money (CNSNews.com). "In fact, it is pay Islamic world the adverse effects of climate change, high a price", the Secretary General of the OIC Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a meeting of emergency in Saudi Arabia.


Reports of research show 62 000 square miles of land are affected - about a fifth of the country. Approximately 50% children are affected by the 15 million people in 2010 against the floods.

Now, it is estimated that more than five million Pakistan need humanitarian floods this year, are reported in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, 25% of women and 50 per cent of the children of November 25, 2011 UN agencies. Some 800 000 houses were destroyed or severely damaged in the floods, which began in August, and about 750 000 displaced persons were still at the end of October.

After such a drastic floods around 5.3 million people of the this year rains have affected which began to fall the end of August.
370 000 People are estimated to live in camps in Sindh.
200 000 People were and remain without shelter.
1.7 Million hectares of agricultural land affected.
300 people were killed in three months.

Intensify climate risks, it will have to react proactively load by action and separation console sessions represent instead of facilitate and create the response.

Cities may increase the risk of destructive floods, improvement of sanitation and hygiene and establishing a solid waste schema management, that promotes the garbage collection reduced to minimize the use of plastics and effective. Governments need integrated urban plans to develop the urgent on water supply, flood, transportation and solid waste and climate change issues.

Monday, 9 January 2012

Asian Countries Face the Greatest Risk from Severe Climate Change -by- Naseem Sheikh

As Ban Ki Moon said in September 2007 " Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation"
Asian countries including Pakistan face the greatest risk from severe climate change, which could force millions of people to flee their homes and trigger environmental migration, according to an Asian Development Bank report.


The report titled "Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific" says Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan face the greatest risk, but Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, China and South Korea are also especially vulnerable.
Public opinion in Pakistan in recent years has largely disapproved of how the Government of Pakistan totally ignored the problem of climate change. China, the U.S. and India seem the most reluctant to sign up to the EU's "road map" pointing toward the next climate treaty after the limits in the current one expire next year, have refused to commit to legal targets, raising the prospect that no country will have targets to cut emissions after 2012
From the World Bank commissioned report in 2009: "Public attitudes toward climate change: findings from a multi-country poll",comes this interesting look at country wide attitudes to climate change.
So it's interesting to look at how these views affected country attitudes at Durban recently.
Pakistan is one of the countries that has been severely hit in recent years by the disastrous effects of climate change including flash floods and devastating earthquakes. Public opinion looks set to remain far ahead of governmental action here.