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News presentation(Ethiopia)
5D Eden Lam(9) 5D Chloe Lee(12)
Ethiopialies between latitudes 3° and 15°N near the Equator.
Introduction
Background-Ethiopia
Officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Located in the Horn of Africa(非洲之角 ) With over 93,000,000 inhabitants Most populous landlocked country in
the world Total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres Capital : Addis Ababa
Climate in Ethiopia
Mean annual rainfall distribution over the country is about 2000 mm
Mean annual temperature distribution over the country varies from about 10℃ over the highlands of northwest, central and southeast to about 35℃ over north-eastern lowlands
•The country has experienced both dry and wet years over the last fifty five 55 years.
•The trend analysis of annual rainfall shows that rainfall remained more or less constant when averaged over the whole country
•There has been a warming trend in the annual minimum temperature over the past 55 years.• It has been increasing by about 0.37 ℃ every ten years.
What are the negative impacts brought by global warming to Ethiopia?
IMPACT
Water: due to increasing evaporation, the availability of clean drinking water is likely to decrease
Health: The warming is further expected to cause an increase in infectious disease, such as malaria, dengue fever etc.
Consequence The late rain and droughts lead to: - Crop loss - Decreased productivity or loss of livestock - Water shortage - Soil erosion - Reduced income from agricultural production - Food insecurity/famines - Decreased ability to meet other basic needs
The impacts of droughts are generally more intense. Crop pests lead to:
- Reduced soil productivity/crop loss - Reduced livestock feed - Loss of livestock - Food insecurity
News
Summary
Land is unsuitable for produce coffee bean Seventy percent of the world’s coffee could be
wiped out by 2080(that predicts a 38 per cent reduction)
Become highly vulnerable to temperature change and other dangers including pests and disease.
“high risk of extinction” Not take into account large-scale deforestation
in coffee-growing areas in South Sudan and Ethiopia.
News
Summary
Increased poverty, water scarcity, and
food insecurity
People added burden of increasingly
unpredictable weather
Editorial Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.
Aug. 19-2011 -Thursday's Times-Dispatch ran a wire story about southern Ethiopia, a normally green region that drought has turned brown. The drought in Somalia has captured the world's attention and appealed to its compassion. If it does not see rains soon, a fertile area of Ethiopia could extend the scope and severity of the food crisis.
The report recalled Eliza Griswold's "The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam." The author toured the sections of the globe where Christianity and Islam meet, not always in happy circumstances. Conflict often occurs. Europe's religious wars may seem like ancient history. In other continents, faith collides.
Griswold also explores environmental considerations. "The Tenth Parallel" indentifies a geographic band dramatically affected by climate change. Warming has made agriculture more difficult. Hunger can breed conflict. Throughout history, humans have waged war over natural resources. Observers say rising food prices contributed to the so-called Arab Spring as economic stress helped to raise simmering political grievances to the boiling point.
There is a reason geopolitical analysts study climate change's implications for national security and peace worldwide. Africa has seen drought before and will see it again. Nevertheless, global warming's impact on what ought to be an African breadbasket cannot be dismissed out of hand.
Copyright: To see more of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.timesdispatch.com. Copyright (c) 2011, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com.
Summary
A normally green region that drought has turned brown.
If it does not see rains soon, a fertile area of Ethiopia could extend the scope and severity of the food crisis.
What is the stance and measures taken by
Ethiopia mitigation of global
warming?
National Protocol coping with global warming
Such policy and program initiatives include the
Environmental Policy, Energy Policy and the Biofuels
Strategy, Agriculture and Rural Development
Strategy, Water Resources Management Policy,
Health Policy, National Policy on Disaster Risk
Management, Food Security Strategy, National Policy
on Biodiversity Conservation, and the Pastoral Policy.
The NAPA document (replaced by Ethiopian Programme of
adaptation to Climate Change- EPACC) was prepared (2007)
NAMA (in 2010)
In 2011 the “Climate-Resilient Green Economy” (CRGE)
strategy was launched.
The national five-year development plan (for the period
2010/11-2014/15), outlines the country’s vision for a low-
carbon development path and building of a green economy.
Ethiopia’s Programme of Adaptation on Climate Change (EPACC)
Formulated in 2007.
To build a climate resilient green economy
Objective :“to contribute to the elimination of poverty and to lay the foundation for a climate resilient path towards sustainable development”.
Aims to mainstream climate change throughout government sectors by ensuring climate change is embedded within government policies
News
Summary
Ethiopia has implement a intensive tree-
planting scheme
Planted more than 700 million trees in 2007
Increased forest cover to mitigate erosion,
improve soil quality, and preserve biodiversity.
Apart from these…
Aim of the Ethiopian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA)
To improve and enhance the health and
quality of life of all Ethiopians
To promote sustainable social and
economic development so as to meet
the needs of the present generation
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs”
Her stance in the
Copenhagen climate change
conference
Her stance in the Copenhagen climate change conference
Summary Ethiopian prime minister calling for
the UK prime minister to offer $50bn (£44bn) a year by 2015 and $100bn (£89bn) by 2020
InternationalCo-operation
Stance in major climate conferences and international cooperation China: the Forum on China-Africa
Cooperation (FOCAC) Highest quality for foreign aid, and
the materials it provides include machinery, equipment, medical devices, testing equipment, transport vehicles, office equipment, food and medicine.
Supporting of Austria Government Funding package worth 2.2 million
US-Dollar To help implement the Convention
on Biological Diversity (CBD) In partnership with the Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) To restore habitats where species of
wild coffee reside in Ethiopia →"Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve" (YCFBR)
National adaptation programmes of action (NAPA) provide a process for (LDCs) To identify priority activities that respond
to their urgent and immediate needs to adapt to climate change
Example: Improving the range land resources
management practices in the pastoral areas of Ethiopia
Strengthening drought and flood early warning systems in Ethiopia
Support from the USA The Government of Ethiopia’s
Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) A cooperation from the USA (USAID) Plays a critical role In building the resilience capacity of
chronically food insecure communities to shocks and climate change.
Reference 1.UNDP partners with Least Developed Countries Fund to strengthen early warning systems and climate information in Africa (02 Oct 2013) http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/10/02/undp-partners-with-least-developed-countries-fund-to-strengthen-early-warning-systems-and-cli
mate-information-in-africa/ 2.非洲魔咒 http://www.360doc.com/content/11/0814/18/906586_140358364.shtml 3.Climate change increasing poverty and vulnerability in Ethiopia http://www.oxfam.org/pressroom/pressrelease/2010-04-22/climate-change-increasing-poverty-and-vulnerability-ethiopia Rich countries must help Ethiopia adapt Coping with Drought and Climate Change in Ethiopia http://www.adaptationlearning.net/projects/ethiopia-coping-drought-and-climate-change 4.Effect of global warming on the distribution of parasitic and other infectious diseases: a review. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1293729/?page=1 6. 再暖点,咖啡就消失了 http://paper.people.com.cn/rmwz/html/2013-02/01/content_1204935.htm?div=-1 7. Coffee beans at risk of extinction http://www.salon.com/2012/11/12/coffee_beans_at_risk_of_extinction/Effect of global warming on the distribution of parasitic and other infectious diseases: a review. 8.begin with video -非洲與亞洲經歷古代特大乾旱,預示未來可能出現旱災 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyZfyZsGghM 9. 全球暖化海平面上升影響非洲 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zRDtx-k_RQ
10. Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation in Africa - Ethiopia http://www.adaptationlearning.net/project/supporting-integrated-and-comprehensive-approaches-climate-change-adaptation-africa-supporti
11. Ethiopian government says it has tripled forest cover in a decadehttp://news.mongabay.com/2010/0721-hance_ethiopia_trees.html
12. CLIMATE CHANGE NATIONAL ADAPTATION PROGRAMME OF ACTION (NAPA) OF ETHIOPIA http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/napa/eth01.pdf 13. Ethiopia: Building on Progress A Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) http://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Policy-Documents/Plan_for_Accelerated_and_Sust
ained_(PASDEP)_final_July_2007_Volume_I_3.pdf International level 14.SUPPORTING BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY http://www.entwicklung.at/en/news/supporting-biological-diversity/ 15. National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs) http://unfccc.int/national_reports/napa/items/2719.php 16. Mapping of Policy and Institutional Arrangements for Climate Change Adaptation in Ethiopia http://www.climateethiopia.org/images/Policy/policy_brief_2.pdf 17. IIED http://www.iied.org/exploring-how-climate-change-interventions-can-work-best-deliver-more-sum-their-par
ts
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