DIMAPUR, May 19 – ‘Your World, Our Move: Come together for Climate Change’ was chosen as the theme for this year’s observance of World Red Cross Day. Nagaland joined hands with their counterparts globally to observe the day and to create awareness recently.
With growing human activities like Green House effect, land use, fossil fuel, gases, pollution there is immense threat to the climate condition of the world that we live in today, Nagaland Governor K Shankarnarayanan, said in his message as the State president of Nagaland unit of Indian Red Cross Society.
The theme is the most appropriate and befitting theme, the Governor said. As the Red Cross movement has been in the forefront towards humanitarian services, the global concern about climate change and its effects is definitely the biggest concern for the movement. He also emphasised that this catastrophe can be prevented by restricting adverse human activities against the nature.
Dr KS Sashidhar, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland made a power point presentation. He expressed concern over global warming and climate change and explained about the impacts of these two factors in the next few years.
Dr Sashidhar disclosed that climate changes have been noticed worldwide, temperatures have risen by 0.6C over the past 40 years and predictions that it will go up by 2-6 C. He also added that Co2 concentration in the atmosphere have risen by 40 per cent over the past two centuries. In 2005, the Co2 concentration increased by 2.6 ppm in volume making the biggest annual jump ever recorded.
He explained that these changes are attributed to three main causes, Green House Gas emissions in industrial nations is very high; emissions are also rapidly increasing in the developing or emerging nations and rampant razing and burning of tropical forests.
Talking to The Assam Tribune, about North East India, Dr Sashidhar disclosed several studies have predicted significant changes in the weather-climate and water regimes of the Himalayan region in the coming decades because of impacts of global climate change.
The consequent social, economic, livelihood and environmental implications in the eastern Himalayan region are also of immediate concern to scientists and policy makers, he pointed out.
About his observations of changes in Nagaland, Dr Sashidhar said that it is found that summers are becoming warmer and there is a considerable increase in number of pests like locusts and mosquitoes; ill distributed rainfall with longer dry months between October- March; shortage of drinking water; delay in sowing of crops and non germination and onset of pests and disease on crops and vegetables.
To fight the climate change, he suggested that one needs to understand the impact of climate change on forests, biodiversity and livelihood, follow conservation practices, give emphasis on energy conservation; promote renewable energy sources; abate air pollution, afforestation and wasteland development and have fuel substitute policies. The use of CFL bulbs and uses of bicycles can be the small contribution from the youths towards the conservation, he said.
Dr Sashidhar said the direct visible impact of the climate change is the long dry spells of rains and its un-uniform distribution is slowly creating more hardships to the people. Giving examples of the change of weather conditions at Kohima and Dimapur in the last few years, said the phenomenon of climate change is affecting the lives of the people of the northestern region even. Deforestations, burning of jungles and other aspects are the main cause. Among the preventive measure he suggested for the people of the region to plant as many trees as they can.
On the occasion, Deputy Commissioner Dimapur Maongwati Aier exhorted the youths to join the Red Cross Movement to serve the mankind in large number. He said Red Cross is a good platform for the young people to work for the betterment of the mankind.
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With growing human activities like Green House effect, land use, fossil fuel, gases, pollution there is immense threat to the climate condition of the world that we live in today, Nagaland Governor K Shankarnarayanan, said in his message as the State president of Nagaland unit of Indian Red Cross Society.
The theme is the most appropriate and befitting theme, the Governor said. As the Red Cross movement has been in the forefront towards humanitarian services, the global concern about climate change and its effects is definitely the biggest concern for the movement. He also emphasised that this catastrophe can be prevented by restricting adverse human activities against the nature.
Dr KS Sashidhar, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forests and Chief Wildlife Warden, Nagaland made a power point presentation. He expressed concern over global warming and climate change and explained about the impacts of these two factors in the next few years.
Dr Sashidhar disclosed that climate changes have been noticed worldwide, temperatures have risen by 0.6C over the past 40 years and predictions that it will go up by 2-6 C. He also added that Co2 concentration in the atmosphere have risen by 40 per cent over the past two centuries. In 2005, the Co2 concentration increased by 2.6 ppm in volume making the biggest annual jump ever recorded.
He explained that these changes are attributed to three main causes, Green House Gas emissions in industrial nations is very high; emissions are also rapidly increasing in the developing or emerging nations and rampant razing and burning of tropical forests.
Talking to The Assam Tribune, about North East India, Dr Sashidhar disclosed several studies have predicted significant changes in the weather-climate and water regimes of the Himalayan region in the coming decades because of impacts of global climate change.
The consequent social, economic, livelihood and environmental implications in the eastern Himalayan region are also of immediate concern to scientists and policy makers, he pointed out.
About his observations of changes in Nagaland, Dr Sashidhar said that it is found that summers are becoming warmer and there is a considerable increase in number of pests like locusts and mosquitoes; ill distributed rainfall with longer dry months between October- March; shortage of drinking water; delay in sowing of crops and non germination and onset of pests and disease on crops and vegetables.
To fight the climate change, he suggested that one needs to understand the impact of climate change on forests, biodiversity and livelihood, follow conservation practices, give emphasis on energy conservation; promote renewable energy sources; abate air pollution, afforestation and wasteland development and have fuel substitute policies. The use of CFL bulbs and uses of bicycles can be the small contribution from the youths towards the conservation, he said.
Dr Sashidhar said the direct visible impact of the climate change is the long dry spells of rains and its un-uniform distribution is slowly creating more hardships to the people. Giving examples of the change of weather conditions at Kohima and Dimapur in the last few years, said the phenomenon of climate change is affecting the lives of the people of the northestern region even. Deforestations, burning of jungles and other aspects are the main cause. Among the preventive measure he suggested for the people of the region to plant as many trees as they can.
On the occasion, Deputy Commissioner Dimapur Maongwati Aier exhorted the youths to join the Red Cross Movement to serve the mankind in large number. He said Red Cross is a good platform for the young people to work for the betterment of the mankind.
http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/details.asp?id=may2009/ne8
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