Megha Rani

Climate is an average weather in a place over a long period of time, with the increase in population and pollution there is sift in the average weather condition which is called Climate Change. It’s been decades since we are over utilizing, wrecking, exploiting, and profiteering from our eco-system. In hunger of creating human made beauty in every three seconds we are damaging destroying and killing natural resource to the size of football pitch. The damages are not limited up to lands, but we are also killing our underwater ecosystem. The planet is warming up with intense rise in temperature, the effects of global warming and climate change are much more visible, the burning heat is melting our glaciers, shifting precipitation pattern, and damaging the homes of wildlife’s. Moreover, if warming continues with increase of time hurricanes, floods, draughts will become strong and common resulting in destroying millions of worthy life and livelihoods which will make poverty increasingly visible. The most evident climate transition is seen in Odisha with high variability of rainfall leaves people with two peak periods of food shortage, draught, flash flood, extreme heat waves at summer and intense costal flooding and cyclones. 

Climate change is a serious risk to poverty reduction and threatens to undo decades of development It targets the most vulnerable population further reduce access to drinking water, negatively affect the health of poor people, and poses real threat to food security. Climate changes have deep connection with unemployment, with negative connotation to work productivity. With the continuous increase in temperature the working hour will be reduced which will impact on the productivity. The effects of climate change also have specific implications for women and for the challenge of achieving gender equality in the world of work. The vulnerable population with lower access to resource materials will sunk the most. With the help of skill development and change at policy level can reduce the social and economic implication on poor population.

Megha Rani is a graduate of TISS. She currently works as a Young Professional at UNICEF, Bhubaneswar. Her interests lie in the areas of Writing & Graphics Designing.

Disclaimer: The information in this blog reflects the author’s research, and personal experiences. Youth4Water Plus neither endorses, nor is responsible for the views expressed by the author.

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