Experts say receding coastlines are a crisis felt around the world. Some examples:
Indonesia's environment minister has predicted that some 2,000 of Indonesia's estimated 18,000 islands would be swallowed by the sea in three decades because of climate change.
Bangladesh, a low-lying country with 145 million people that often is battered by floods,
tornadoes and cyclones, could see 5 million of its residents displaced if predictions for rising
sea levels are correct, according to its environment secretary.
Low-lying South Pacific countries are asking their islanders to prepare for a complete
exodus as rising seas threaten to swamp their homes.
The Greek coast is receding by 1.2 meters a year.
The Copenhagen meet must be able to solve the problems regarding the emissions by
various countries, India and China playing an important part. Though India and China
failed to abide by the July 10 convention, yet now before the Copenhagen summit,
China and Brazil have announced to cut the emissions by 40% while Indonesia by 26%
and India by 20-25 %.
Jairam Ramesh, minister of environment and forest delineated the plans of planning commission to
achieve the goal thus,”
1. Mandatory fuel efficiency standards for all vehicles by December 2011;
2. A building code that encouraged energy conservation, with a recommendation to local Governments to
make this mandatory;
3. Amendments to various laws to reduce energy intensity of industrial activities;
4. Regular monitoring of the state of the forests, which now absorbed about 10 per cent of India's greenhouse
gas emissions; and
5. Half of the new coal based power plants coming up to use clean coal technologies - super critical,
ultra super critical and coal gasification.
3 comments:
Hahaha... The Calvin is awesome da!! :). Nice post- can't agree more. But, I have now come to realise that individual contributions are going to be negligible. But, what we can contribute towards is an awareness and interest about the situation. The more the citizens of a country panic,the more a government will do sommething about it :). Let's show some panic to them, fake or real for a good cause :).
Thanks a lot da...yeah true, Lets panic and the media will exponent it to the governments......
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