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English Essay :

Climate Change

by Waqar Ahmad
49th &50th common
Climate change
How to tackle it,

● Quotes
● What is Climate Change
● Is it a threat
● Can it Unite Humanity
● Its Impacts Globally and in Pakistan
● Steps taken globally and in Pakistan
● Way forward
Quotes on Climate Change
Climate Change is no longer some far-off problem; it is
happening here, it is happening now. - Barack Obama

‘We Are the First Generation that Can End Poverty, the Last
that Can End Climate Change’,

UN Former Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon


Climate Change : an overview
● Global warming is a single aspect of Climate
Change, GW is warming of the earth atmosphere
and increasing the global average temperature.
● Climate change is a vast terms that
encompasses global warming, change in rain
patterns and wind direction, ozone depletion,
impacts on changing temperature on bio
diversity etc.
● Extreme weather manifestation worldwide is
testimony to the fact of changing climate.
Is climate change a threat: yes
Give your arguments through examples and quotes.
i.e,
● Floods in Pakistan
● Recurring Hurricanes/cyclones/Typhoons. Recent
Heat Waves in Europe.
● Heatwaves in Karachi.
● Incidents of Wildfire,
● Ozone depletion,
● Greenland ice melting,
● UN Efforts to combat it is also a proof that it is a
real threat.
Can it Unite Humanity
● Yes, First, UN through COP conferences strives to tackle

it collective

● Green Climate Fund

● Willingness to set targets for carbon emission reduction

by developing countries

● Kyoto Protocol

● Pro-Climate Technology is pursued in Developed

Countries
Impacts Globally
○ Heatwave in Europe

○ Amazon forest wildfire

○ Ice melting

○ Rising sea level

○ Recurring floods and change in rain pattern

○ Intense Hurricanes/cyclones
Impacts on Pak
● Pakistan among top 10 most vulnerable Countries

● Floods of 2010 & 22

● 2016 onward heatwaves

● Submergence of land in coastal areas

● Agriculture productivity affected

● Locust attack on agriculture (C.Change driven)


Steps Globally
● Trillion Trees forestation project by UN

● Establishing Green Climate Fund

● Setting emission reduction targets on developed

Economies

● Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto Protocol 1997)

● Carbon Credit

● Shift in attitude of Oil rich countries

● Some Hurdles
Efforts by Pakistan
● Billion Tree and 10 Billion Tree project

● First National Climate Change Policy 2012-13

● Climate Change division upgraded to Ministry

● Advocating the issue on Global platforms

● Green energy projects

● Green Pakistan Program 2016


Way Forward
● Adaptation mechanism should be followed first, then

mitigation

● Protecting WOmen (70% more vulnerable)

● Climate resilient crops

● Financing GCF

● Early alarm system

● Persuading Oil rich countries to quit politics on C.Change


Thank You

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