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World at Risk a Level Geography
Renewable Energy Projects
Cut down use of fossil fuels
Small scale projects – solar panel, turbines
Bio fuels
More expensive than fossil fuels

Tree Planting
Acts as carbon sink
Benefits not felt for at least 10 years
Energy Efficient
Most effective way
Remodel factories – optimum use of energy
Greener power stations
Recycling
Green transport – hybrid technology
Rising temps
More droughts
Melting glaciers

Water stress experienced by 40% of population

Applied at all scales
Allow developed countries to pay for greenhouse gas by cutting projects in return for carbon credits
World Conference on Disaster Reduction
Hyogo Framework
Solutions
Community work
Tackling the Challenge
Mali
Using technology, soil conservation schemes
Reality:
Ecosystems very sensitive.
High vulnerability.
Limited adaptive capacity in LEDCs
Benefits:
Longer growing season north
Extreme weather affects crops
Farmland taken up by plants for biofuels
Climate change = more famine in Africa, S.America, Asia
Rapid changes mean people don’t have time to adapt EG Amazon
Water Shortages
Poverty
Economic shortage of water.
Needed for people as well as crops/animals

Food Insecurity
The Challenge
Challenge of Global Hazards for the Future

More impacts – more food insecurity
Conflicts over water crisis
More vulnerable people plunged into poverty
Environmental refugees

More uncertainty – more extreme weather with more uncertainty.
Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns. Increase in number of storms.

Worsening greenhouse effect – rising sea levels

Increase evaporation – more water vapour
More ice sheet and glacier melts

Higher temperatures – more hazardous world.
Impacts on food and water supplies

Opposed global warming/ climate change till 2002
Promoting energy efficient transport
More energy from nuclear, renewable and bio fuels
Massive polluters
Electricity is the worst

Emissions Reduction Targets
EU 8%
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