Climate Change: Water Scarcity Will Become A Major Challenge
It is anticipated to have an increasing impact on human health, security, livelihoods, and poverty levels in Asia and the Pacific.
Food productivity and human security is projected to decline in many Asian countries.
Both climatic and non-climatic drivers are affecting the extreme vulnerability of the Pacific region.
So, it was timely and appropriate that the United Nations Environment Programme-Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network (UNEP-APAN) organized the Climate Change Adaptation Forum for the sixth time in Manila recently to discuss ways to make the world a better and safer place to live in.
The three-day event was co-hosted by the Climate Change Commission, Philippines, the Government of the Republic of Palau, and the Asian Development Bank.
Since the impact of climate change affect the poor and the marginalized the most, the participants felt that the damages, threats and vulnerability of such calamities should be shared by all.
Mr Anand Patwardhan, Director General of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, in his keynote address delivered from Stockholm exhorted countries to share knowledge on adaptation with other nations for the benefit of others.
While glancing through the newspapers, I found two articles on climate change published in them — one on a new “Hyper alarming” study showing massive insect loss even in protected natural reserves and the other on Pasig River winning the first Asia River Prize award.
According to the study, there is dramatic decline in invertebrate populations.
The study also found that the number of insect-eating frogs has also decreased.