What is this insane Behaviour? Why they’re even burning trees, plants and green areas? What’s their fault? Have they gone Mad? What example are we setting for the upcoming generations?
Being apolitical I won’t talk about who’s at fault (whichever side), my Only concern is the Devastation of the Environment!
Whoever or who are involved in this activity should be strictly treated for damaging the environment, and ecosystem and ruining our beautiful city ISLAMABAD!
What could be more heartbreaking than that? Our beautiful City, Our Capital – ISLAMABAD, Our Country is Burning
Simply RUBBISH !!!!!! Highly condemnable
Pakistan is already under severe Climate Change Effect – Day by day Forests burning across Pakistan including Margalla Hills, with Huge fires eradicating the plants and ecosystem. Summers are already quite HOT and deforestation is at its Peak !!!
Please share your voice and SPREAD THE WORD !! Let’s SAVE ISLAMABAD #SavetheEnvironment #SaveGreen #SavePakistan #saveislamabad #SpreadTheWord #emergency
Category: Climate
We are beginning a new year, and the silence in countries all over the world by concerned authorities is still deafening. Will there ever be a debate about what should be done to deal with climate change?
The COP26 case has failed to deliver on the arrangements we desperately need. The gathering has been a motorcade of inaction, fraudulent arrangements, and greenwashing by wealthy legislators and companies, all of which are the culmination of a victory. At every level, this COP was a tumultuous ruin. Organizing companies and even government states saw the COP as a greenwashing PR opportunity, while the nations hailed the dangerously fraudulent Net Zero Focus as a victory. The UK government, while governing COP 26, was so worse that it hindered the contribution of representatives from nearly eight regions that are generally impacted by environmental change. Instead, they focused on the north of 500 petroleum product lobbyists.
The UK Government’s need was to veil its powerless targets and inaction with void declarations, building up their plot with large businesses and rich people, and streaming in big names and world pioneers with almost no part to play in the genuine exchanges.
This ought to have been the COP that limits a dangerous atmospheric deviation to 1.5 degrees with rich nations doing their rational part of exertion, meeting their neglected guarantee on environment finance and following through on Loss and Damage. All things being equal, COP26 has conveyed an understanding which is selling out of individuals and science, leaving us on target for a 2.7 degrees warming – putting billions of lives in danger and forfeiting bleeding-edge networks for benefit. While legislatures neglected to act, COP26 was a remarkable snapshot of development in power and fortitude for the environment equity development. Through aggregate work in the course of the most recent two years, countless individuals globally assembled under a call for environment equity, requesting critical and only answers for the environment emergency, declining to be careless to the untruths and the same old thing of state-run administrations and organizations.
Individuals went to both physical and advanced People’s Summit for Climate Justice to examine, learn and strategize about building the development. From native pioneers to youth environment strikers, from civil rights associations to worker’s organizations, from against bigoted gatherings to coordinate activity crusades, our more extensive development has acquired basic energy. We gave viable fortitude by setting up a framework to help those unfit to join in or mobiles for COP in any case: from running a Visa Support Service to individuals across Scotland opening their homes for the Homestay Network.
Due to the aggregate activity of environmental activists, the environment equity development is all the more remarkable, taught, and associated than at any other time. Our evaluations are developing continuously. Environment equity is presently not on the edges – it’s currently been brought to the focal point of each battle. We’ll keep on building power and challenge state-run administrations and organizations across the world.
Across the world and developments, another flood of opposition, worldwide fortitude, and grassroots getting sorted out. The world is at an intersection as the emergency of environment, Coronavirus pandemic, and disparity further uncovered the imbalances and shameful acts inside and between our social orders. We can either strengthen the extremity to the final turning point or establish the foundation for a simple world where everybody’s requirements will meet.
The scientific community agrees that the climate emergency will have disastrous downstream consequences on all levels of society. As such, climate change has led to concerns not only of environmental sustainability but of social stewardship. In reality, the two issues are inseparable.
Much remains to be said on climate and environmental issues at the global and local levels; from artificial and catastrophic events to natural methods around the world, individuals are being made aware of environmental concerns. But efforts to address or at least improve them rarely make headlines. Today, environmental awareness is widespread. Conscious individuals are learning a great deal about global climate change and those responsible for it, and are making changes in their daily lives, but unless the relevant authorities take appropriate and prudent practical steps, these little efforts will be in vain. In early 2022, environmentalists will continue these discussions within their movement. We know what we need to achieve in this fight for climate justice,s we need to be united and active. Interest will remain, good hopes for the coming new year. 2022, because all is well that ends well.
In common with many other environmental issues, when considering the use of a material, a ’cradle to grave‘ approach must be adopted in weighing up the environmental disadvantages against the advantages to mankind. Plastics, in many forms, are currently in demand. Whereas for certain purposes, plastics have merits and lessen the consumption of other materials, but these in all forms are not biodegradable
Currently we all live in the rise of the plastic age. Disposable type is on top of consumption list of plastic. Which means it’s almost difficult to live even a day without using some sort of disposable plastic whether it’s the plastic bottle/ cup having any drink in it, the disposable tray or container we used at lunch, or the plastic bag in our refrigerators that store our edible items. People are using and tossing off plastic at overwhelming rates.
Just over a century ago plastics were made from fossil fuels. Production and development of thousands of new plastic products accelerated at rocket speed, so converting the recent age that life without plastics would be bizarre today. In the recent past it was assumed that plastics revolutionized human life by introduction of safety gadgets like helmets, incubators and equipment for cleaning water and making vehicles light weighted, made space travelling easy by saving fuel consumption. As time went on, heavy iron, brass and wood items were replaced by light plastic. Our kitchens are full of plastic containers that have been replaced by old glassware. Restaurants and tea stalls also have replaced their natural earthenware with modern cheap plastic utensils. Water supply pipes, buckets and mugs were seen paving the way in the bathrooms. Even our daily wearable items like face masks, clothes safety kits, and luxury decorative items on our clothes have made up of plastic. Pen, pencils and other stationery items also have plastic material as an essential item as a part of their manufacturing. Lives had seemed very convenient because of plastic.
These plastic amenities offer, however, led to a throw-away culture and disturbed natural ecosystem that reveals the material’s dark side: Since the 1950s, around 8.3 billion tons of plastic have been produced worldwide and within just the past 50 years, plastic production has become doubled globally. Today, almost 40 percent of the disposable plastic produced per year, about 2 million plastic bags, a million plastic bottles and up to five trillion plastic wrappers are bought around the world every minute. Many of these products, such as plastic bags and food wrappers, have a lifespan of less than a minute to hours, yet their remnants may persist in our environment for many hundred years in micro plastic forms.
In the coming decades, it is expected that globalization of commodities and their increasing consumption rates will lead to depletion of natural resources. In this regard, crude oil is universally recognized to be a major unsustainable resource: its rapid utilization has caused an increase of the global atmospheric temperature by increments of concentrations of a number of greenhouse gasses, to levels that have largely exceeded the normal ones. Global warming and other environmental issues like haze, smog and relevant health issues are already under discussions. The majority of plastics currently used are contrived from crude oil and related fossil fuels, such as coal and natural. Furthermore, their decaying time prediction and, hence, their persistence in the environment go well beyond the expectations. In this way in this polluted world plastic became the bone of contention due to rapid consumption and persistence and appearing as the main villain.
Have we ever thought what happens to that plastic once they became trash? It doesn’t simply disappear into the thin air. Plastics don’t decompose like organic substances. Instead, they break down further into smaller and smaller parts, considerably of which ends up in oceans, where it is spent by marine wild life and eventually to humans through food webs. In this way it exists in our surrounding environment in some way or other and keeps on increasing the challenge to all ecosystems of our planet. Scientific research proof that wasted plastic if buried underground in landfills, it might stay buried until future generations rediscover it, but it’s leachate keeps leaking around its surrounding soil and changes the natural composition of soil; fertile soil becoming unfertile soil and barren. Same problematic story appears for plastic that reaches the ocean, some is wash away up on coastlines or consumed by wildlife. Furthermost remains in the sea where it breaks down into minor fragments.
When it ends up in landfills or incinerators, both PVC and PVDC can release highly toxic chemicals called dioxin, and bisphenol which are hormonal disturbers, says the World Health Organization. The major contributions to environmental degradation from plastic are generation of hazardous air pollutants (HAPS) and generation of hazardous waste (HW) and solid waste. This abolishes the ozone layer and actually produces or speeds up Global Warming. Eventually, the earth’s temperature is rising. The rise of the earth fever has caused ice caps to melt and many natural habitats to be devastated.
All types of plastic based solid waste further become a part of the environment either by mixing of waste water with freshwater or pure soil and with outside healthy air, so the process of uncontrolled contamination mixing begins, it must be checked. Till date, we are usually aware of 7 types of pollution which are; soil, air, water, noise, thermal, radioactive and light. But there comes the 8th type of pollution, which is plastic pollution. Gradually because of its drastic negative impacts this plastic pollution now became at tops the list of pollution types. It is impeding the ocean and wildlife health the maximum even plant lives are not out of risk. It is estimated that almost 80% of marine debris originates as land-based trash and the remaining 20% is allocated to at-sea. It is evaluated that around 90% of the plastics in the pelagic marine environment are micro plastics (less than 5 mm in diameter) created by nonstop process of weathering.
A glimpse at the world’s oceans can easily point out the dimensions of this plastic problem. A 2017 study by an environmental Foundation found that by 2050, earth’s oceans will contain more plastic than fish. Already, there are huge, submerged, moving concentrations of trash waste in the planet’s oceans, known as garbage patches. Great pacific sea between Japan and California, has a garbage patch, for example, is twice the size of Texas, the majority of that patch has plastic waste. This Great Pacific Garbage Patch, continually growing, it performs like a tornado, dragging ever more rubbish into its center.
Every other day we are getting the news that a large bird’s community had died having many small plastic in their guts or a pregnant whale was found dead with 50 pounds of plastic in the stomach. These figures are alarming and threatening. A material said to be environmentally friendly when it has the quality of being non-destructive for the surrounding environment. It is important to appreciate that this interaction works in reciprocating order, such as the effect of the material on the biologic environment and the effects of the biologic environment on the material. Any type of material from its working environment further enters into the surrounding atmosphere via either solid waste, sewerage waste, obnoxious gases or volatile compounds, thus polluting all land, water, and air systems.
Plastic marine debris is of particular concern due to its longevity in the marine environment, the chemical and physical risks it presents to marine and wildlife, and the fact that it is frequently mistaken as a food by aquatic organisms, and further its long-term contribution to the food chain and food web. The impact of plastic pollution through ingestion and entanglement of marine fauna, ranging from zooplankton to cetaceans, barnacles, mussels, fish, sea-fowls, marine reptiles, and their predators are well reported.
There are quite much to learn about ill health effects due to micro plastics, there exposure in animals has been linked to cell damage, liver abnormality, inflammation, cancer, neurological disorders, starvation, infertility and fetal disorders. Usually there are almost 50,000 plastic particles that each of us breathes and eats every year and the micro plastic pollution falling on some cities undoubtedly have an impact, particularly as many of the chemicals in plastics are known to foundation a variety of health complications. These micro particles can easily be penetrated to skin, nasal cavity, and via the respiratory system into other body organs and can be reasoned for by many diseases.
Plastic based Polymer releases a number of monomers in its working areas. These aerosols are air-suspended liquid or solid molecules that contain a variety of micro plastic of many polymer composite materials along with other microbial organisms. This suspended particulate matter of aerosols produced during different procedures and consumption processes further reduce the indoor air quality (IAQ).
Major sections of the society are progressively awaking and accepting the damaging properties of plastic, so they are taking practical steps to reduce plastic ill impacts. The use of certain disposal plastic items especially plastic bags are being banned in many countries some, in fact, banned the production of plastic and its goods. At least some people apprehend these pollution facts and start using jute and cotton bags which are generally environmental and reusable. Due to cancer-causing effects of plastic many users alter back to glass containers and jars for storing their food items. Besides plastic recycling has been extensively efficacious in reducing this plastic pollution and halts further manufacturing of plastic from scratch again which helps to a great extent. Research is also under process to reuse plastic such as generating electricity and also finding a better environmental substitute for it in the forthcoming future. Actually, at global level many countries took pioneer step and passed international laws related to excessive use of plastic and they are constantly working to reduce its harmful effect on earth.
Biarritz, southwestern France is hosting the 45th meeting of seven of the world’s most advanced economies from August 24-26. The Group of Seven (G7) is an informal grouping of seven of the world’s unconventional economies, as well as the EU and European Commission. World’s advance economies include Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States
The Green Climate Fund is the largest international fund dedicated to helping developing countries take action on climate change. Green Climate Fund helps developing countries limit or reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) releases and adjust to climate change. It was set up by the 194 countries who are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010, as part of the Convention’s financial mechanism. It aims to deliver equal amounts of funding to mitigation and adaptation, while being guided by the Convention’s principles and provisions. It’s a perilous part of the Paris Agreement, but currently, the GCF experiences a crisis of confidence. In 2019, countries are due to obligate another round of pledges to the GCF, so the fund needs to get back into shape very quickly.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) pays precise dedication to the desires of civilizations that are highly susceptible to the effects of climate change, in particular Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and African States. Britain, Canada and France are the latest countries to announce donations to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), providing a vital indication that leading countries are stepping up climate finance. Such finance is vital to aid developing countries green their economies and build pliability to the unavoidable impacts of climate change.
The donations, amounting to Euro 1.44 billion, CAD 300 million and Euro 1.548 billion respectively, were proclaimed during the recent G7 summit of industrialized nations hosted by France. These new pledges follow those made by Germany and Norway, which were the initial countries to announce contributions to GCF at the end of 2018. So far, four countries –United Kingdom, France, Germany and Norway – have confirmed a doubling of their initial aids in national currency.
A G7 statement addressing climate, biodiversity and oceans released after the three-day gathering of world leaders indicated a number of countries which appeared the G7 are presently finalizing charities to GCF’s renewal and called on other countries to donate to GCF’s “substantive first replenishment” to improve GCF’s impact.
Canada will host GCF’s second consultation meeting in Ottawa on 29-30 August. This will be followed by a pledging conference in autumn this year. GCF replenishment is also high on the UN Secretary General’s Climate Action Summit agenda on 23 September.
GCF’s first official replacement was thrown during the 21st GCF Board meeting in October 2018. The process includes session meetings with potential contributors, developing countries, GCF Board members and concerned shareholders on the intentional directions of the Fund to respond to the resolution of climate action in developing countries.
GCF has now allocated over USD 5.2 billion to 111 climate projects in 99 countries. In. addition to project funding, the Fund has also approved USD 160 million for capacity building activities (known as readiness support) helping 126 developing countries identify and address their most pressing climate finance challenges.