There must be complete crop insurance to protect the crops in situations such as this year in Kerala. Failure of the monsoons and the unavailability of enough water is destroying crops in the state.
Read the editorial in Malayala Manorama here.
Kerala, one of the most beautiful destinations in the world, will turn into a desert if there is shortage of rainfall as in this year. We need to prevent this.
Read this editorial in Malayala Manorama here.
Pakistan faces a range of threatening climate change impacts: changing monsoon patterns, melting glaciers, seasonal flooding, rising sea levels, desertification and increasing water scarcity.
But concrete action to address climate threats has been relatively slow, critics say, and a convoluted process of devolution of power to Pakistan’s provinces and then the reorganisation of federal ministries hasn’t helped speed up the process – though a new federal Ministry of Climate Change may help change that.
“The time for talking is long past,” said Shafqat Kakakhel, a former U.N. Environment Programme official and a member of Pakistan’s original task force on climate change set up by the government in 2008. “What we need to see are projects on the ground. Pakistan is lagging far behind other countries in the South Asian region that are already addressing climate change through concrete actions.”
To read the full story: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/pakistan-pushes-ahead-on-climate-policy-but-action-still-lags/
