Monthly Archives: May 2013

Face of climate justice in Bangladesh

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As Bangladesh is the most climate vulnerable country, most people from the disaster prone area is migrating from their place to capital city or any other big cities. They are deprived from all human rights. How can climate justice work for them and what is the way to distribute the climate fund to them in a transparent process is the main discussion topic of the conversation. The displaced people are mostly illiterate and they need to change their profession for surviving. Their social and economic status rapidly decrease which may impact on their physical and mental condition. These all are impact of climate change, which may solve by planning a community based adaptation processes. These processes need transparency and accountability from national to global stage for establishing climate justice for the victims. This is a discussion with Adv. M. Hafijul Islam Khan, An Environmental Lawyer in Bangladesh.

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Government involvement in community based adaptation make a change

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Community-based adaptation is important for climate change mitigation. The involvement of communities to cope with climate change’s adverse effects is necessary. Government shows interest to work in the local level in “Seventh International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change”- mentioned Dr. Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow of International Institute for Environment and Development-iied.  “To make a remarkable change in the process of adaptation and mitigation in climate change, climate justice is the first and foremost need”-said Mary Robinson, President of Mari Robinson foundation and the chief guest of the closing program of seventh CBA conference. To make successful change in adaptation government involvement in local level is very urgent need. By identifying that need, Nepal government has decided to contribute 80% of the climate change fund in the community level. And they are working out to develop an appropriate distribution process. Mr. Ajay Dixit, Executive Director of Institute for Social and Environment Transition-Nepal talked about that initiative in his country.
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Earth Hour Day 2013 in Bangladesh

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On March 23 in Earth Hour 2013, by turning off its non- essential lights and also taking other energy saving measures for one full hour, the people from Bangladesh joined in a movement to show the responsibility towards environmental sustainability. It is such an initiative, which is not just a one day event rather a social awareness campaign to enlighten everyone to take the responsibility to climate change. In Dhaka youth join this movement by arranging a cycle rally and public candle light. In this movement, an Australian environmentalist and volunteer Mr. Patrick Kirkby has joined in Dhaka this year. As Earth Hour is a worldwide event organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and held towards the end of March annually. Since 2007, this movement had started from Sydney, Australia. So, his participation was very significant. He made a conversation in Green Hour. He shared some valid points to mitigate the climate change risk from developing country like Bangladesh. At the same time, he is trying to make a bridge between Australia and Bangladesh to make a climate justice.
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Would Hillary and Norgay Recognize Mount Everest?

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When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest 60 years ago Wednesday, the mountaineers gazed over a view from the top of the world that had never been seen before.

The view has changed since that historic day. Pollution and rising mountain temperatures are relentlessly shearing away at the Himalayas’ frozen façade. Photographs taken around the time of the 1953 expedition show hulking ridges of ice that have since shrunk or disappeared.

Glaciers and snow are melting throughout the sprawling mountain range, which stretches across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibetan China. The waning glaciers are leaving precarious mountainside lakes of cyan blue water in their wake.

Continue reading at Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/mount_everest_climb_anniversary_melting_glaciers_have_changed_the_view_from.html

Climatic Change is effecting the region and its effects are very clear in Pakistan,says Dr.Nafees

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Dr.M.Nafees an active researcher and environmentalist said in his interview to NBS Peshawar ,Radio Pakistan that  global warming is causing climatic change.He said due to human activities ,population explosion and other activities the emission of green house gases has increased many folds which are causing the temperature  to rise which in turn causes the glacier and ice to melt and rise water level in rivers.Floods comes and devastates the land.Crops and fruits are effected due to this temperature change.
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Bhote Koshi River: The power of choice between life and death

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Exactly a month ago to this date, I returned from Nepal, where I had attended a workshop for South Asian Journalists on Climate Change and the Environment.

It was my first time to Nepal, so I was curious to see what the country was like especially since it had a population slightly higher than my city, Bangalore. The country, when compared to India, does seem to be stuck in a time warp –just by appearance with really old buildings and its third-hand Maruti 800s roaming around as taxis. However, after spending a week there, it births a lingering hunger and thirst to be in nature’s presence. This hunger sets in when you land in Nepal and all you see are the mountains.

Read more: http://forbesindia.com/blog/economy-policy/bhote-koshi-river-the-power-of-choice-between-life-and-death/#ixzz2UfLdOcf4

 

Nepal’s Bhote Koshi River: Should it be used for power or sports?

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Exactly a month ago to this date, I returned from Nepal, where I had attended a workshop for South Asian Journalists on Climate Change and the Environment.

It was my first time to Nepal, so I was curious to see what the country was like especially since it had a population slightly larger than my city, Bangalore. The country, when compared to India, does seem to be stuck in a time warp — just by appearance — with really old buildings and its third-hand Maruti 800s roaming around as taxis. However, after a week with Nepal’s mountains, there grows a lingering hunger and thirst to be in nature’s presence.

Read more: http://www.firstpost.com/economy/nepals-bhote-koshi-river-should-it-be-used-for-power-or-sports-824497.html

Climate change adaptation: So simple, a caveman could do it

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Climate change is a helluva thing to live through. But humanity’s ability to cope and survive during past periods of climatic upheaval might have been what inspired species-advancing leaps in culture and innovation.

New research published last week in the journal Science links some of our ancestors’ greatest cultural advances during the Middle Stone Age to periods of tremendous tumult in the climate. The findings suggest climate change helped get our African ancestors off their butts and thrust them off on quests to explore the greater world.

The Middle Stone Age, which began roughly 280,000 years ago and ended perhaps 30,000 years ago, was a momentous time in our history. During this period, Homo sapiens developed modern bodies and brains, and began an epic march out of Africa to inaugurate a worldwide diaspora. This migration begat cave paintings, advanced stone tools, and a cultural revolution that would eventually deliver us to the globalized, Twitter-connected, Monsanto-dominated, mountaintop-removing, solar-panel-using, electric-car-driving world we recognize today.

Continue reading at Grist: http://grist.org/news/climate-change-adaptation-so-simple-a-caveman-could-do-it/