The "Up In Smoke" alliance, composed of about 20 major international environmental development organizations, warned in a statement yesterday that in the face of the threat of climate change to humans and the environment, unless immediate response measures and action or global climatewarmingThis phenomenon will set back the social and economic development of the entire Asian region for decades.
Organized by the international public welfare organizations "ActionAid" and "LondonThe Vanish Alliance, composed of organizations such as the International Institute for Environmental Development and Greenpeace, made the above statement in a press statement issued at a press conference in New Delhi yesterday.
The press statement quoted the alliance's report titled "Evaporated: Asia and the Pacific" as saying that several regions in Asia are already beginning to show the impact of climate change. For example, last month,typhoonAttacked the southeastern coast of mainland China, affecting five million people.
According to a report cited by the Vanish Alliance established four years ago, Asia, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the world's population, will bear the brunt of the consequences of climate change. In particular, more than half of Asia's population lives in coastal areas.global warmingBe a direct victim of rising sea levels, e.g.VanuatuMany Pacific island countries are currently in crisis.
The alliance reports that 87 percent of the world's 400 million small-scale rural areas are known to be located in Asia. These rural areas are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they rely on regular and reliable rain. For example, droughts have increased in northern China, destroying the livelihoods of local farmers; in addition, about eight of the ten high mountain glaciers in western mainland China are said to have shrunk.
ActionAidIndiaRegional director Mehta also said in the report that India, with 600 million people living in rural areas, is particularly sensitive to climate change, whether in agriculture, forestry, fishery, animal husbandry, etc.
Mehta said that the catastrophic impacts that India may face include 250 million people already living in extreme poverty that makes it difficult to cope with climate change, 400 million people living in the Ganges River Basin where water resources may be scarce in the near future, and more Many people will be more severely affected by melting glaciers in the Himalayas and erratic rainy seasons.
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