When we talk about the
environment, is actually very sad for me, because at present the country
formerly known as the equatorial emerald designation has changed, now
stretches of forest that had been felled by many parties who are not
responsible, once fertile fields are now inundated causing rot of rice,
when the summer will was starting to shine and if the rain season will
be floods, lands slides resilient ubiquitous. Actually
at this moment in our country has much to do reforestation and planting
a million trees by the people who care about the environment.
This is
very worrying for me, but some time ago in the area where we live is
planting a million trees, followed by concerned citizens, every house is
hoped to plant one fruit tree seedlings supplied by the government,
this is a great relief because the area we have many industries that are
less concerned with environmental impact. But we will keep trying to plant a tree and tried to continue caring for trees for our grand children's future.
The oorja smokeless stove used pellets from bagas and other agriculture-wastage instead of wood and has a minimize carbon
smoke compared to wood burning stoves. Used by the millions of rural
households in India, the distribution and adoption of alternative energy
for daily other than LPG and alternate for wood use can have a big
impact in reducing emissions that cause global warming. “Oorja” today represents a new way for cooking and has the potential to grow large scale, Now
there are customers from rular and also from urban householde in India.
Rular area household are spening much time in kichan. Use of
kerosene meas they are always deal with hazardous
smoke. At mansoon season there is very difficult to use regular chool
woods getting are not dry. there is much smoke rather than heat wich
will give many health problems. Oorja smoke less stove costing from Rs 950/- to Rs. 1500/- for household. For commercial costing @ Rs 9000/-. Bimass pallets used for this stove available at Rs 40/- per Kg. In pack of 5 Kg bag. It is made from agricultural wastage like bagas etc. so it is harmess.
Most families have reported a 50% cost saving in their cooking costs due to Oorja
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, trying to revive long-stalled
climate talks, told world environment ministers on Tuesday he is “deeply
concerned” that many years of negotiations have proven largely
fruitless.
“The pace of human-induced climate change is
accelerating. We need results now, results that curb global greenhouse
emissions,” Mr. Ban declared at the opening of high-level talks at the
annual U.N. climate conference.
“I am deeply concerned that our efforts so far have been insufficient,” the U.N. chief told delegates.
“Nature
will not wait while we negotiate,” he said. “Science warns that the
window of opportunity to prevent uncontrolled climate change will soon
close.”U.N. environment chief, Achim Steiner, reminded the conference
that countries’ current, voluntary pledges to reduce emissions would, at
best, offer the world limited protection against serious damage from
shifts in climate.
Lives at 'high risk'
Another reminder
came from the mountains of south Asia: In a new report, experts said
people’s lives and livelihoods are at “high risk” as warming melts
Himalayan glaciers, sending floods crashing down from overloaded
mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources.Low-lying
Pacific island states, in particular, are losing shoreline to rising
seas, expanding from heat and the runoff of melting land ice. Following
Mr. Ban to the podium, President Marcus Stephen of Nauru, one of those
states, said the reality of climate change has been lost in scientific,
economic and technical jargon.
“Without bold action, it will be
left to our children to come up with the words to convey the tragedy of
losing our homelands when it didn’t have to be this way,” he
said.Despite such evidence of growing impacts, and scientists’ warnings
that temperatures will rise sharply in this century, nations have made
little progress over the past decade toward a new global pact on
emissions cuts to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The Republican
rebound in Washington could delay action even further.Instead,
environment ministers will focus on secondary tools for confronting
global warming, laying the groundwork, for example, for a “green fund”
of $100 billion a year by 2020.Financed by richer nations, the fund
would support poorer nations in converting to cleaner energy sources and
in adapting to a shifting climate that may damage people’s health,
agriculture and economies in general.Negotiators also hope to agree on a
mechanism giving poorer countries easier access to the patented green
technology of advanced countries, and on pinning down more elements of a
complex plan to compensate developing nations for protecting their
climate-friendly forests.
Decisions ripe for adoption'
“Some
important decisions are ripe for adoption, on protecting forests, on
climate adaptation, technology and some elements of finance,” Mr. Ban
told reporters.
He urged governments “to be flexible and to
negotiate in a spirit of compromise and common sense for the good of all
the peoples.”
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Butterflies inhabit
every continent except Antarctica. Flitting from flower to flower, they
assist in pollination. People are awed by their fragile beauty but more
importantly, butterflies indicate the health of the environment.
Cold-blooded, butterflies are dependent upon temperature, just as are
rodents, birds, frogs and other insects. Measuring butterfly response to
warming temperature helps researchers all over the world gauge the
effect of climate change, and researchers are finding that butterflies
are seeking new habitat to find the temperatures they need.
In an
article titled, "Butterflies Across Europe Face Crisis as Climate
Change Looms," researchers warn that Europe will lose much of its
biodiversity due to global warming as indicated by a study of butterfly
distribution conducted by the Climatic Risk Atlas of European
Butterflies, which involves hundreds of European scientists. One of the
authors of the study, Dr Josef Settele, said: "The Atlas shows for the
first time how the majority of European butterflies might respond to
climate change. Most species will have to shift their distribution
radically."
In Great Britain, declines in butterflies led
researchers to consider saving the butterflies by moving them to cooler
areas. Researchers at Durham University caught Marbled White and Small
Skipper butterflies in North Yorkshire, and transplanted them to County
Durham and Northumberland where, eight years later, the species were
found to be thriving. Professor Brian Huntley of Durham University
hailed this experiment in "assisted colonisation" as a possible role in
wildlife conservation. This idea is also being pondered among
conservation biologists in the United States. Known as "assisted
migration" moving a butterfly to a more congenial place presents many
problems. Will a butterfly fit in the new home? What about the plants it
depends on or other aspects of its habitat? Which butterflies should be
moved?
At UC Davis, California, Arthur Shapiro, professor of
evolution and ecology for 35 years, monitored fixed routes for butterfly
populations twice a month at ten sites from Suisun Bay to the Sierra
Nevada in central California, accumulating data on over 150 species of
butterflies. On April 18, 2005, Shapiro counted 21 species and 378
individual butterflies in Gates Canyon near Vacaville. On April 18 of
the following year, 2006, Shapiro counted just 10 species and 43
individual butterflies. "Butterflies," Shapiro notes in 2010, "are being
hit hard by the combination of lower temperatures and habitat loss."
"I
used to be able to walk 15 minutes from my lab and find common
sootywing larvae. Now I know of only one permanent colony in the whole
county," Shapiro says. "Butterflies that were once considered utterly
common, including willow hairstreak, large marble and West Coast lady,
are going into a tailspin."
Shapiro reported three major
findings: Butterfly diversity is being lost at sea level but is
increasing at tree line as butterflies migrate to cooler areas. High
elevation butterflies are being lost since they cannot move higher. When
an area changes from rural to urban or suburban, the greatest butterfly
losses occur.
At the University of Melbourne, Australia,
butterflies are found to be emerging 10 days earlier than they did 65
years ago. This led researchers to establish, for the first time, a
causal link between "increasing greenhouse gases, regional warming, and
the change in timing of a natural event." Researchers found that air
temperature around the city of Melbourne has been increasing
incrementally every decade, and, over the 65 year period, the Common
Brown butterfly (Heteronympha merope) has shifted its emergence date 1.6
days earlier per decade.
