Environment Protection etc...

What we think our leaders do !!

              It's quite surprising that we humans we are more fascinated and less frightened by the thoughts of doomsday,End of the world etc.Alien Invasion ,Global Warming  etc are the reasons or the causes which Many authors,scientists etc have stated for the world to come to an end.Based on these Hollywood filmmakers have made fortunes by  bringing such phenomenon on the silver screen with the Steven Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds' and Roland Emmerich '2012' being the Latest additions to the long list.Sometimes I wish the world could be saved in the same manner as in 'Avengers' where all superheroes like Iron Man,Hulk,Thor etc came together to save our Planet Earth.But unfortunately it is not so...In real World..the problems are many and diverse and the responsibility of saving planet earth rests on the shoulders of  educated (not all of them) and old (no exceptions)  representatives of  various countries. World leaders of different nations assemble together at places of their choice to attend boring yet important summits,conferences where they have tea,biscuits, liquor and other forms of entertainment and if time permits some  discussion on gathered data and published works of Hardworking and eminent scientists who are slogging day and night to bring to their attention imminent threats to planet earth due to Global warming, environment degradation ,Loss of  Biodiversity , lack of sustainable development  etc.

What our Leaders actually do...

                      Anyways we restrict ourselves only to the important discussions that happen in such meets and summits.For that let us get a brief background of various organizations that are working towards protecting the planet Earth.          
           IUCN -headquartered in Kenya is also known as World Conservation union. It is World's oldest Global environmental organization, one of the most prominent work done by this organization is the preparation of Red list which is a system of classifying animals, plants etc on the basis of their likelihood of extinction and India has 132 species (this does not include Digvijay Singh, Baba Ramdev, Mamata Manerjee etc) on this list !!Jokes apart we can just hope that  Environmental ministry headed by Jayanti Natrajan has had the precious time to give the List  a read and ensure positive steps are taken to protect these species,besides IUCN has also got an observer status at UN General assembly so that it can voice environmental concerns at the global stage.
           CITES-headquartered in Switzerland is the Convention on International trade in endangered species of Wild flora and Fauna is another contribution of IUCN to stop illicit trade of wildlife.Trade of wildlife is another serious problem as people all over the word use traditional medicines derived from plants and animals to cure diseases.Asian region especially Chinese are notorious in this as they use bones, tissues, bloods of tigers, rhinos, elephants for treating arthritis,impotency,cancer and even AIDS.The countries which agree to follow CITES guidelines are called 'Parties' .These countries meet at regular intervals and their meets are called 'Conference of Parties' .The next COP is to be held in Bangkok,Thailand.                          
        Next on the list is  IPCC- Intergovernmental panel on climate change is the leading body on the assesment of climate change.They do  no research of their own.They only assess the most scientific, technical and socio-economic information in simpler terms they select गरीब साइंटिस्ट और स्टूडेंट्स की मेहनत  in the form of research papers which can be helpful in understanding the causes of global warming.The fourth assesment report published by the IPCC has indicated that major contributor to Global Warming is due to the emmision of human induced Green house gases.  This indicates that everything comes down to human need vs greed theory  because as development is taking place at rapid pace in modern times Human greed has grown manifold and we are disregarding Environmental concerns.  
        We can only expect that in coming days  the policy makers in the Goverment  stop the age old (नाम  बड़े और दर्शन छोटे ) approach by only forming high level committees and attending Global seminars instead of doing changes at the grassroots level for the protection of flaura and fauna of our great land.In the era of Vote bank politics where subsidies are for the poor and tax exemptions are for the super Rich most important areas like protection  animals,environment and Biodiversity take a backseat.
           Considerable work is being done by people working in adverse conditions and hope this practise continue in coming days.For more information on the efforts taken by the Goverment in Environmental protection visit this link -Ministry of Environment & Forests
     
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