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| IIPA, Forest Deptt hold seminar on Climate Change | | | 
early times report
Jammu, Sept 28: The Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), J&K Regional Branch, in collaboration with the J&K Forest Department, organised a seminar on Climate Change: Challenges, Mitigation and Adaptation last evening. First of its kind, the seminar brought together experts, policymakers, and academics who deliberated on one of the most critical global challenges of the present time.
Vasu Yadav, Chairman, Pollution Control Board & Director Environment Remote Sensing J&K and Dr. Rajeshwar Singh Jasrotia, IFS (retd) & former CCF gave their presentation on the topic. B.R. Sharma, Chairman of IIPA J&K Regional Branch, was the Chief Guest while Dr. Ashok Bhan, Patron of IIPA J&K Regional Branch, presided over the function.
Vasu Yadav, in his presentation, made a distinction of climate change and the politics of it and said that climate change is not a new phenomenon and validated his views with references to holy scriptures like Ramayana and Mahabharata. He explained that climate change has been seen all through human history and said that it had never been static. Human beings had been adapting the changes to mitigate its effects from time to time and survived. While the recent massive socio-economic development that is essential to match the yearning of the nations, has decidedly contributed to the current ecosystem, it needs to be understood that climate change cannot be avoided as we learn from history. When development would take place with the use of modern gadgets for comfortable living, the temper is bound to increase. This posed a formidable challenge to the Forest Deptt to retain the existing green cover and increase it gradually to offset effects of rising temperature and consequential damage.
Explaining the recent devastation due to ecological disturbances in Jammu, Vasu said that it is a grim reminder of the changing weather pattern. During May to September this year, we have seen 19 western disturbances which are unprecedented in recent history. Monsoon along with unprecedented western disturbances resulted in incessant rainfall, cloud burst and floods taking a heavy toll of life, property and public infrastructure. For the first time, Kathua with no mountains, suffered a cloud burst which is unprecedented, he added and said the people should reorient their thinking about climate change. He said that we must be careful in calibrating our response to climate change but adhere to basic principles like conservation of resources, deploying climate propriate technologies, proper land use, pollution control and scientific waste management.
Dr. Rajeshwar Singh Jasrotia, delved upon the unusual and weird climatic events witnessed during last few decades across the globe, and said that successfully demonstrated the meteorological aberrations manifesting in form of erratic rainfall, intense heat waves, severe droughts, frequent hurricanes, typhoons, cloudbursts etc. Detailing the intricacies of science behind climate change, he vividly illustrated the status of global emission of greenhouse gases over the years and corresponding linkages associated with the increase of average earth surface temperature. He also underlined the various facets of Climate Change and their impact on pattern of precipitation; melting and receding of glaciers; reduced water availability; loss of food grain production; movement of disease-causing vectors towards poles; rise in sea levels; disruption of ecosystem functions; loss of biodiversity; modulated changes in forest structure & composition and effect on biota etc.
To collectively shape the "Shared atmosphere & Climate intensity", Jasrotia laid emphasis on collective solidarity at all levels suggesting urgent measures like massive de-carbonisation; progressive replacement of fossil fuels; adopting modern efficient technologies to cut emissions; switch over to renewable energy sources; afforestation; reduction of footprints etc. so as to tackle the problem of climate change besides fulfilling the agreed commitments of Intended of Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) under the Paris Agreement.
B R Sharma, in his address, complimented both Vasu Yadav and Dr. Rajeshwar Singh Jamwal for their brilliant exposition of their views on climate change and said that the world is currently facing one of the gravest multi-pronged challenges in climate change which he described as crisis of science, policy framework, ethics, spirituality and civilisational. Its threat loomed large over mankind, affecting our lives, future, and economies.
Sharma said that the nations can respond to this challenge with ancient wisdom and referred to sayings of ancient seers and verses of Atharva, Rig and Yajur Ved and said that if we harm the earth, our mother, we are harming ourselves. |
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