UNO interessiert sich für den Emmentaler Wald

Climate change practitioners in a  Secondary forest at 
 Emmental west central Switzerland.The blogger in the middle in red jacket

"Is climate change adaptation or investments"

Future of climate Change resilience

• Building capacity, Enabling society and ecosystem to bounce back to change on  success
• Should support adaption planning and action
• Ensure ecosystem are  healthy and adverse
• Access to information
• Help people to understand adverse effects and prepare  in response early warning systems
• Access to technology and services and access to  quality infrastructure
• We need to reform our  model development
• Deploy new technologies

Financial resources especially to vulnerable countries to build investments

Strategies to build climate disaster and climate resilience
Implementation of national implementation plans
Establish awareness among local people

Opportunity to improve society and livelihoods

We must all  address , take responsibility  and commitment to address  climate change

Meatless movement vs greenhouse gases

Did you know that the meat industry is responsible for approximately 20% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions? In fact, producing one calorie of meat requires nearly twenty times the amount of energy as one plant calorie!

With global meat consumption tripling over the last four decades, meat industry generates nearly one-fifth of the man-made greenhouse gas emissions that are accelerating climate change worldwide – more than the entire transportation sector.

To make matters worse, producing meat also requires a huge amount of water. An estimated 1,800 to 2,500 gallons of water go into a single pound of beef. By comparison, soy tofu produced in California requires only 220 gallons of water per pound.

Imagine how much carbon and resources we could save if we ate less meat. Even just eating meat one less day a year would make a difference.

If we want to make a real dent in the world’s carbon footprint and reduce our own personal footprint, we need to eat less meat.

Fruits: Diet, Healthy nutrition and value addition

Everyone knows that fruit is really good for you, and should be regularly included in your daily diet. It does not matter what form it takes, be it juice, whole and fresh, or processed, as long as you are careful about the type of processed fruit you use. Some have way too much added sugar to be healthy, so be sure to read the labels. Do your research, because studies are done all the time, and opinions will change. Wine, for example, used to be frowned upon, at least until it was discovered that the antioxidants that grapes possess transfer intact, to the wine, making it healthy to drink once more.

Another Source of Water

A surprising side benefit that comes from fruit and nutrition is that including fresh fruit into your diet will also provide you with an additional serving of water every day. The standard, according to nutritionists, is to drink at least eight glasses of water. A medium sized piece of fruit, one that is naturally juicy, like oranges, can be substituted for one of those glasses, making it easy to incorporate both water and fruit into your diet.

Fiber

Another item that is often recommended for healthy nutrition is to up your consumption of fiber every day. This will help you to improve your digestion, and keep you regular. According to recent studies in fruit and nutrition, you can easily add fiber to your eating regimen simply by adding at least one portion of fresh fruit to your meals. Apples, bananas, melons and grapes are great for this, and easy to eat on the go, if need be.

Helps Weight Loss

When it comes to dieting and the consumption of fruit, you cannot go wrong by using fruit for purposes of snacking. Fruit, no matter its form, are some of the lowest calorie foods that you can find. Making snacks out of fruit is just smart, because they will not destroy your count per meal. And, as an added bonus, they also make great appetite suppressants, thanks to the amount of water they provide.

Vitamins and Antioxidants

Next to the production of patent medicines, the next multi-billion dollar industry has to be the creation of over the counter vitamins. Why clog up the countertops with countless bottles to get the vitamins you need, when you can get them directly from the source: fruit! Combined with the right amount of vegetables, you can take in all the vitamins a healthy diet requires, just by eating a balanced diet. And, as a bonus, you also gain sources of antioxidants, which boost the immune system and fight off all the nasty pollutants from the air, sun and water, especially carcinogens.

Money Savers

With the costs of processed foods continually on the rise, you can easily argue the foods in your diet, and save money, by buying fresh fruit whenever possible. Admittedly, canned might be easier to handle, but its cost is much higher, because it often includes a percentage of the cost of processing and canning. Eating fresh is also healthier, because you will not have all those preservatives and additives, like sugar, busting your diet by their presence.

Timber theft leads to degradation of critical habitat for endangered animals

Timber merchants mercillesly  choping tree- Kibwezi, photo by Carolyne Kyalo

Rampant Deforestation of tropical forests constitutes to one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and the conservation of nature. Incredibly, fauna and flora in Kenya is the most endangered on Earth. Though selective timber harvest is part of a silvicultural system used to create or maintain an uneven-aged forest, preservation of critical forest habitats for endangered biodiversity is a difficult and largely unsolved problem.

It requires identifying the critical habitats and excluding all competitive uses from them. Reducing the incentives for forest land conversion to agriculture will help protect some critical habitats in select regions of new development. Moreover, the problem will only compound in any region where local development is associated with further clearing of the forest.

Given the economic, ecological, and climatic importance of plants, scientists will continue to discover ways to facilitate their genome characterization. Trees have significance importances in our lives and “every tree counts in environment conservation”. We manage trees on a landscape to know that they are correctly identified, their geographic source and adaptive characteristics. This can be probably be adopted by utilizing .DNA markers technology. This will be attained through biodiversity recovery and creation of  local carbon sinks to compact global climate change.

In my current research on landscaping and mitigation measures to climate change in Eastern part of Kenya, the key aspects of controlling timber theft, is by sensitizing the community thorough outreach programs on nature restoration . This will be enhanced by propagating of both indigenous and exotic trees nursery management, and pilot plantations timber utilization till maturity time. Most under-utilized tree in this area is Melia volkensii. a tree extraordinary economic importance smallholder farmer

Wild life Animals

Habitat loss for forest animals due to illegal logging contributes to increased deforestations and remains threat to wildlife and other endangered animals.

Climate change communication and adaptation

Farmers and pastoralists, as well as policy makers, development and humanitarian programmes in Africa are searching for the best ways to adapt to the impacts of climate variability and change. Changes in seasonal rainfall patterns and more unpredictable, severe and frequent extreme events like floods and droughts are already being observed, threatening livelihoods in vulnerable communities.

Most adaptation strategies aim to spread or reduce potential risks, for example by using drought tolerant seeds, cereal banks, diversification to non climate dependent income sources, weather based insurance products, or early warning systems. Although such concrete measures are essential, climate change is continuous and unpredictable. Adaptive capacity to make informed and flexible decisions for action is becoming even more important to ensure resilience to climate change impacts.
Climate science and meteorology provide valuable sources of information that can help, not only in predicting future weather and climate (which can never be fully accurate), but also in developing understanding and skill in befriending and managing uncertainty. Seasonal forecasts for example, give probabilities of three different rainfall scenarios.

Gene cloned proteins yet to live up to the Hype...

There’s no argument that biotechnology has dramatically improved global healthcare with the introduction of many novel biotherapeutics . A few examplies include:

Enbrel for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis; 

Rituxan for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; Herceptin for breast cancer; 

Humulin for diabetes; Procrit for the treatment of anemia in patients with kidney failure, HIV, or cancer

Avastin for metastatic colorectal cancer, advanced nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer, metastatic kidney cancer, and glioblastoma.