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Climatechangeanditsimpacts 170512110446 PDF
Climatechangeanditsimpacts 170512110446 PDF
Rukhsana Hussaini
What is climate change?
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 may refer to a change in
average weather conditions.
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Why Climate Changes
•Thereare both natural and
anthropogenic reasons of climate
change .
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Why should we be interested in
climate change?
• Climate helps to determine the quantity and quality of water available for human
use.
• Climate determines the severity of droughts, storms, and floods.
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For Pakistani’s, Climate Change is no longer a distant
threat-we are already feeling and experiencing its
impacts across the country and the region.
Losses in the 2010 floods alone exceed US$ 9.6 billion.
Pakistan is signatory to all major UN climate change
conferences
Pakistan has an National Climate Change Policy.
c) Energy Security
Pakistan aims is to add 8,100
megawatts of coal power to the d) National Security
system….
Pakistan’s contribution to global
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is
very small about 0.08%.
Climate Change
Pakistan
Pakistan Floods (1950, 1956, 1957, 1973, 1976, 1978, 1988, 1992, 1995,
2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011 and 2012)
Pakistan Floods 2010: (Around 2000 people died and over 20 million affected)
2007 Cyclone Yemyin July 2007: At least 730 people died, some 350,000
people were displaced, 1.5 million affected and more than two million livestock
perished. Tropical cyclone also proved devastating in the recent past history of
Pakistan
1998-2002 series of Droughts: At least 1.2 million people in Baluchistan were
affected by drought, and over hundreds of people died, mostly because of
dehydration, Millions of animals perished.
Heat Waves 1978, 1990, 1995, 1996, 2007, 2010, 2013,2016
Climate Change
Pakistan
www.ifrc.org
Attached Departments
National Disaster Management Authority
Ministry of Climate
ii. Pak EPA
Change
iii. Zoological Survey Department (ZSD)
Pakistan has elevated iv. Global Change Impact Study Center
the climate change (GCISC
division to a ministry
.The Ministry of Climate
Change has been vested
with the mandate to
comprehensively
address Disaster
Management along with
spearheading national
climate change
initiatives both in
adaptation and
mitigation.
Pakistan
environmental
protection Act, 1997
An act to provide for the
protection, conservation,
rehabilitation and improvement of
environment, for the prevention
and control of pollution, and
promotion of sustainable
development
◦ MITIGATATION
Adaptation is usually distinguished from coping , which is
conceptualised as a short term mechanism of dealing with
immediate shocks
◦ Social mobilization
◦ Water infrastructure
◦ Sanitation
◦ Leadership legitimacy
Tackling Waste
1. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnerships/
goal13
2. http://www.pk.undp.org/content/pakistan/en/home
/ourwork/environmentandenergy/overview.html
3. https://nas-sites.org/americasclimatechoices/more-
resources-on-climate-change/climate-change-lines-of-
evidence-booklet/
4. http://unchronicle.un.org/article/goal-13-taking-
urgent-action-combat-climate-change-sdgs-and-paris-
climate-agreement/
5. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustaina
ble-development-goals/
6. http://www.mocc.gov.pk/gop/index.php?q=aHR0cD
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