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Greenhouse gas emissions on the increase – Shyam Nokta
Shyam Nokta
While efforts are intensifying towards reaching a global agreement on Climate Change and how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Chairman of the National Climate Change Committee and Advisor to the President, Shyam Nokta, has noted that there is a significant increase in gas emissions.
In a short period of time, there has been an increase by as much as 30 per cent at the global level, Nokta said during his remarks at a two-day conference on NARI’s annual research conference.
Nokta cited the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen, which plans to be one of the signature events for climate change action and which will reflect on the kind of actions needed and the calls made globally for deeper emission cuts to greenhouse gases.
“Even as scientists are examining these trends and the impact of climate change, they have an increasing challenge to establish what the effects will be simply because the rate at which green house gases are being put into the atmosphere is not slowing down,” Nokta said.
According to Nokta, the world’s agriculture sector is brought into focus at a time when there is increasing population growth, decrease in food production and threats to food security.
According to recent estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the world population is expected to grow from six billion to 9.1 billion by 2050.
“With this will come a significant demand for food and the projections are showing as much as 50 per cent or more. This will require a repositioning of the global agriculture sector, significant investments in agriculture at a global level, but also a change in the way we do agriculture.”
While there are many challenges facing the agriculture sector, the greatest one will be from climate change, since it will have an impact on food availability, food accessibility, food utilisation and global, national and local food systems and its stability.
It was noted that the poorest regions with the highest levels of chronic hunger are likely to be the worst affected by climate change and in many of these areas, it is projected that there could be a decline of between 9 and 21 per cent in overall agricultural productivity. “But as we examine the impacts of climate change on agriculture, it is important to look at agriculture’s contribution to the issue of climate change and to global greenhouse gas emissions,” Nokta urged.
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