{"id":51205,"date":"2019-08-13T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=51205"},"modified":"2019-08-13T16:43:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:13:25","slug":"7-pm-a-bitter-harvest-that-we-could-still-prevent-13th-august-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-a-bitter-harvest-that-we-could-still-prevent-13th-august-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | A bitter harvest that we could still prevent | 13th August, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:<\/strong> A new report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on\nClimate Change places emphasis on how bad land use is making our planet less\nlivable. Shifts in farming practices will help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More in News<\/strong>: IPCC released a special report,\n\u201cClimate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change,\ndesertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security,\nand greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the international body for assessing the science related to climate change. <\/li><li>The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to provide policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. <\/li><li>IPCC assessments provide a scientific basis for governments at all levels to develop climate related policies, and they underlie negotiations at the UN Climate Conference \u2013 the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). <\/li><li>The assessments are policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive: they may present projections of future climate change based on different scenarios and the risks that climate change poses and discuss the implications of response options, but they do not tell policymakers what actions to take.<\/li><li>The IPCC\u2019s main activities are the preparation of:<ul><li>comprehensive Assessment Reports on climate change<\/li><li>practical guidance to assist Parties to the international climate change treaties prepare national greenhouse gas inventories<\/li><li>Special Reports on various topics.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Findings\nof the report, \u201cClimate Change and Land\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Agriculture,\ndeforestation, and other human activities have altered 70% of the land on\nEarth\u2019s surface.<\/li><li>In the past decade,\nland use was responsible for 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions, compared\nto&nbsp;35% for energy and 14% for transportation.<\/li><li>Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use\nactivities accounted for around 13% of CO2, 44% of methane (CH4), and 82% of\nnitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from human activities globally during 2007-2016,\nrepresenting 23% of total net anthropogenic emissions of GHGs.<\/li><li>Since the pre-industrial period, the\nland surface air temperature has risen nearly twice as much as the global\naverage temperature.<\/li><li>Warming over land has occurred at a\nfaster rate than the global mean and this has had observable impacts on the\nland system. The average temperature over land for the period 1999 &#8211; 2018 was\n1.41\u00b0C higher than for the period 1881\u20131900, and 0.54\u00b0C larger than the\nequivalent global mean temperature change. These warmer temperatures &nbsp;have altered the start and end of growing\nseasons, contributed to regional crop yield reductions, reduced freshwater\navailability, and put biodiversity under further stress and increased tree\nmortality<\/li><li>Climate change, including increases in\nfrequency and intensity of extremes, has adversely impacted food security and\nterrestrial ecosystems as well as contributed to desertification and land\ndegradation in many regions.<\/li><li>The level of risk posed by climate\nchange depends both on the level of warming and on how population, consumption,\nproduction, technological development, and land management patterns evolve.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/w.jpg?resize=548%2C288&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51206\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>India\u2019s\nscenario: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Over 29% of land in\nIndia, or 96 million hectares, has been degraded, according to the\ndesertification atlas released by the Indian Space Research Organisation in\n2016.<\/li><li>Intensive rainfall\ntends to erode soil, leaving croplands with lower capacity to retain moisture,\nwhich eventually leads to drought.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What can be done?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sustainable land management, including\nsustainable forest management, can prevent and reduce land degradation,\nmaintain land productivity, and sometimes reverse the adverse impacts of\nclimate change on land degradation. It is a way\nto protect people from this cycle of flood and drought, heat and cold waves,\nerosion and degradation. <\/li><li>The likelihood,\nintensity and duration of many extreme events can be significantly modified by\nchanges in land conditions, including heat-related events such as heat waves\nand heavy precipitation events.<\/li><li>Degraded land produces\nless food and stores less carbon. But conserving and restoring land so it can\nstore more carbon will also improve food security.<\/li><li>It\u2019s important to stop\nthe adoption of crops and methods that aren\u2019t suited to the land. Research\nshows that several crops like coffee, sugarcane, wheat and cotton, among other can\nincrease soil erosion beyond the point of self-regeneration. Turning farms\neco-friendly will mean adopting farming practices that are in harmony with\nnature.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Appropriate design of policies,\ninstitutions and governance systems at all scales can contribute to\nland-related adaptation and mitigation while facilitating the pursuit of\nclimate-adaptive development pathways.<\/li><li>Actions can be taken in the near-term,\nbased on existing knowledge, to address desertification, land degradation and\nfood security while supporting longerterm responses that enable adaptation and\nmitigation to climate change. These include actions to build individual and\ninstitutional capacity, accelerate knowledge transfer, enhance technology\ntransfer and deployment, enable financial mechanisms, implement early warning\nsystems, undertake risk management and address gaps in implementation and\nupscaling<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"544\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/r.jpg?resize=544%2C297&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51207\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion: <\/strong>The response\noptions stated above, if followed and implemented in true spirit can help the\nnations to protect its people form adverse effects of climate change. The heavy\nrains leading to floods in southern India, the landslides taking a toll on a\nnumber of human lives, the heat waves observed in summer in southern Indian\nstates and drought conditions in other parts are incidents pointing towards the\nclimate change impacts. It is high time to respond to earth in an efficient way\nso that earth too does respond efficiently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/opinion\/online-views\/opinion-a-bitter-harvest-that-we-could-still-prevent-1565629082951.html\">https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/opinion\/online-views\/opinion-a-bitter-harvest-that-we-could-still-prevent-1565629082951.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: A new report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change places emphasis on how bad land use is making our planet less livable. Shifts in farming practices will help. 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