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EWS-WWF REPORT ON UAE CLIMATE CHANGE |
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Increasing global warming temperatures and the consequent carbon emissions around the globe has made UAE highly susceptible to climate change. A recent report released in the UAE predicts that a two per cent temperature increase combined with a 10 per cent rise in humidity by 2050 will exact a heavy toll on at least a dozen sectors across the country.
The report's release comes months after the UAE ratified its commitment to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to reduce the UAE?s fossil-fuel based electricity production over time starting with a 27 per cent renewable energy mix by 2021. As per the report the hike in temperature in UAE will lead to increase in energy demand-supply gap over time, hamper energy security, increase costs to end users and produce additional greenhouse gas emissions as air conditioning demand will increase. Another concern for UAE is food security that will affect the reliability on international food markets as 87 percent of the UAE's food supply is dependent on agricultural production outside the country, and thus prone to climate change impacts all over the world. Consequently, large share of the budgets of lower-income households will be spent on food as they will be more prone to price increase in food commodities. The report confirms that unconstrained carbon emissions have wide-reaching consequences, risking nearly every sector of economy, business and society. EWS-WWF's report elaborates on how changes in air and sea temperatures will lead to a multiplicity of secondary impacts in various sectors of the economy. The report encourages all private sector champions, public sector policymakers and civil society leaders to share the responsibility, and play a part in developing and implementing adaptation strategies to boost resiliency and safeguard the economy, society and environment otherwise the effort of UAE towards achieving economic diversification and the overall well being of the population will slow down. Credit- EWS-WWF, Gulf News |
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thanks for sharing
Posted 03-02-2018 18:50
good reprt
Posted 03-02-2018 18:50
Manav, thank you for your report. It is good to hear that UAE is putting their effort on dealing with climate change. The graphic shows how much problem climate change causes. If you see any major new initiatives regarding to climate changes, please tell us.
Posted 03-08-2017 23:12
Hi Manav! Thanks for sharing your article on EWS-WWF report.
It is true that impact of climate change will affect all economic players and various sectors in our society. In that sense, sharing responsibility and working togeher is important in a long term. Thanks again for great report!
Posted 31-07-2017 19:16
Thanks Manav for sharing this report and highlighting that unconstrained carbon emissions have wide-reaching consequences. As the report rightly indicates, every sector of economy, business and society is prone to the risk. EWS-WWF is actively engaged in protection of biodiversity in UAE through communication initiatives and education programmes to raise awareness on environmental issues. Indeed the first step solving to any problem is understanding the issues at hand and this report by EWS-WWF is very informative.
Posted 28-07-2017 14:15
Good report Manav Jha. Data shows everything is changing despite the efforts done by public and private sector. All concerned stakeholders most move on to the right track to reduce these effects. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 25-07-2017 16:46
Nice report on the much-debated subject. I like the picture which highlights the data. The same is the case in India where there much more field work yet to be carried out. This is a long campaign but hopefully with the initiatives like this, we do see some hope for the better in the near future.
Posted 25-07-2017 12:14
I had also read this on Gulf News online. Sharing vulnerable industries and climate change risks through such reports-acts as an eye-opener for those who are still not vigilant and are not yet acting to reduce their carbon footprint to fight climate change. Rightly concluded that all the stakeholders have to share the responsibility. Thanks for sharing.
Posted 25-07-2017 03:25