Voice of climate-by Naseem Sheikh

The prestigious Young Champions of the Earth prize, powered by Covestro, is awarded every year by UN Environment to young environmentalists between the ages of 18 and 30, for their outstanding ideas to protect the environment. Twenty-nine-year-old wildlife ethno-conservationist Adjany Costa from Angola has won the Young Champions of the Earth Prize for her efforts to conserve precious water and biodiversity hotspots in Angola. As world leaders gather at the UN Headquarters in New York for the Climate Action Summit and General Assembly in the coming days, environment and climate will be at the lead topics of negotiations. Youth around the world are already taking action, because there is no time to lose. Costa’s solution is to work with the Luchaze community in the Eastern Angolan highlands, threatened by unsustainable livelihood practices following the country’s three-decade-long civil war which ended in 2002, as well as clearing of Miombo woodland once landmines are removed....

Scientists have known for years that plastic pollution can exacerbate climatic and health hazards, but our understanding of their connection has evolved significantly in recent years. Plastic are persistently present in our daily consumable items for examples contact lenses. Contact lenses are regularly prepared from a mixture of acrylic glass, silicones and fluoropolymers that permits companies to create a softer plastic material which permits oxygen to pass through to the eye. Every year, worldwide a number of consumers were using contact lenses for their vision needs and for their fashion demands. After specific time period their consumption date expired and they disposed of in simple garbage bin or flush out in washrooms. Recent research conducted in American university proved that Americans flush 2.6 to 2.9 billion contact lenses down the drain. By accumulation this litter and studying how it persists in this environment, the study provides the first estimate of the potential...

The Amazon rainforest is burning at a record rate since more than three weeks, the highest on record since 2013 and an 83% increase from last year. Earlier this month, Brazil declared a state of emergency over the rising number of fires in the region. So far this year, almost 73,000 fires in the country have been detected by Brazil's space research center, INPE. The Amazon is regarded as vital in the fight against global warming due to its ability to absorb carbon from the air. It’s often referred to as the “lungs of the Earth,” as more than 20 per cent of the world’s oxygen is produced there and is home to 10% of the world's known biodiversity. Brazil has the biggest share of the 670 million hectares of forest (60 per cent), which is home to more species than anywhere else on the planet. The region is home to 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and some 2000 birds and mammals. Satellite images show fires in the Brazilian st...

Biarritz, southwestern France is hosting the 45th meeting of seven of the world's most advanced economies from August 24-26. The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal grouping of seven of the world’s unconventional economies, as well as the EU and European Commission. World’s advance economies include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States The Green Climate Fund is the largest international fund dedicated to helping developing countries take action on climate change. Green Climate Fund helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) releases and adjust to climate change. It was set up by the 194 countries who are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, as part of the Convention’s financial mechanism. It aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and adaptation, while being guided by the Convention’s principles and provisions.   It's a perilous part of t...

Pakistan on its righteous way to combat climate change – by- Naseem Sheikh This week (19August -20 August) around 100 ministers and more than 600 stake holders from developing countries will gather at the home of Green Climate Fund in Songdo, Republic of Korea, for Global Programming Conference. It's time to realize climate ambitions for a low-emission future.   The latest IPCC report highlighted the importance of land use in the fight against Climate Change.  Only with proper climate change adaptation planning and budgeting can the most vulnerable sectors - such as agriculture - expect systematic, suitable, and long-term support by both local institutions and donors. On Monday, the Green Climate Fund announced that it had committed $2.2billion in expenditures whereas it has $40bn worth of projects marked for execution. Countries susceptible to rising sea levels, droughts and flooding are particularly anxious about climate finance drying up as the US withdraws it...

Afforestation is one of the best buffers in terms of negative impacts of climate change in the world. Prime Minister, Imran Khan, appeals to all Pakistanis, especially school children that everyone should plant two trees on 18th August to celebrate "Plant4Pakistan day" across Pakistan. more than 22 million plants will be planted across Pakistan today. According to the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) 2017 survey, only 5.7% of Pakistan’s land was covered by forest. The report added that Pakistan lost up to 43,000 hectares of forest every year from 2000 to 2010. This is the highest deforestation rate among Asian countries. The federal government has estimated a one per cent increase in forest area in the country from the Billion Tree Tsunami The forestation project would require a funding of Rs. 125 billion for the first phase and will provide green cover to around 0.8 million hectares of land. As per the proposal, around 4.5 billion saplings will be planted in the country du...

Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives, costing people, communities and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, weather events are becoming more extreme and greenhouse gas emissions are now at their highest levels in history. Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. The poorest and most vulnerable people are being affected the most. The  Intergovernmental  Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an  intergovernmental  body of the United Nations, dedicated to providing the world with an objective, scientific view of climate change and its political and economic impacts. It  is an...

In easy words, “the total amount of greenhouse gases produced to directly and indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in equivalent tons of carbon dioxide (CO2).” This accounting approach compares how much people demand compared to what the planet can renew. The main influences on carbon footprints include population, economic output, and energy and carbon intensity of the economy. In most cases, the total carbon footprint cannot be exactly calculated because of inadequate knowledge of and data about the complex interactions between contributing processes, including the influence of natural processes that store or release carbon dioxide. For this reason, Wright, Kemp, and Williams, have suggested to define the carbon footprint as: “A measure of the total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) emissions of a defined population, system or activity, considering all relevant sources, sinks and storage within the spatial and temporal boundary of the populatio...

Air pollution is a mixture of solid particles and gases in the air released both by natural and anthropogenic sources. Natural sources includes volcano eruption, soil erosion, wildfire, pollen and mold spores and volatile organic particles evaporation of mountain and sea salts due to high temperature. Anthropogenic sources includes traffic vehicle emissions, chemicals from factories, fumes of volatile organic compounds from hair spray, varnish, air freshener, body spray and other solvents, chemicals from fertilizers,controlled burn particles from agriculture and forests, hazardous waste gases from incineration and military weapon utilization. It may cause diseases, allergies and even death to humans; it may also cause harm to other wildlife and food crops, and may damage the natural or built environment.Some air pollutants are poisonous. Inhaling them can increase the chance of ill health problems. People with heart or lung disease, aged adults and children are at higher risk from a...

The climate of a region or country is known through the typical weather over a protracted amount of time. If a vicinity has a lot of dry days throughout the year than wet days, it'd be delineate as a dry climate; an area that has additional cold days than hot days would build it far-famed to own a chilly climate. Pakistan has four seasons: a cool, dry winter from December through February; a hot, dry spring from March through May; the summer season, or southwest monsoon amount, from June through September; and also the withdrawing monsoon amount of October and November. The weather extremes in Islamic Republic of Pakistan embody high and low temperatures, heaviest precipitation and flooding. the best temperature ever recorded in Islamic Republic of Pakistan is fifty three.5 °C(128.3 °F) that was recorded in Mohenjo-daro, Sindh on twenty six might 2010. Disaster state global climate change is probably going to increase climate-related natural disasters with the ...