Elevated temperatures have already perpetuated severe droughts in Africa, resulting in the quadrupling of millet, maize, and sorghum grain prices. Aside from its direct effects, temperature increases cause more frequent and intense fluctuations in the weather, a staple talking point in the UN’s summit on climate change 2009. More storms and less predictable amounts of rainfall cause unwanted soil erosion, a major detriment to steady crop yields. The world must combine advocacy, research, and effective legislation to quell and hopefully reverse these trends.

The current situation might look bleak, and if things will keep the way they are going situation might get even worst. But, there are lots of things that can be done to improve the current affairs and many actions are taken every day. Here is an idea on how to protect the world food from Ted.com:

You should also take a look at how Louise Fresco think we can feed the whole world:

Studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the international organization that is the world’s foremost authority on climate change, have found that:

- One-quarter to one-third of all animal and plant species will be at an exacerbated risk of extinction if average global temperatures rise by 1.5 to 2.5 degrees Celsius.

- Economic losses from disasters and events associated with climate change since 1980 exceed 200 billion USD per annum. Cultural and ecological losses are hard to quantify but have been equally high.

- Heavy precipitation due to cyclones as well as widespread droughts in dry areas are both expected to intensify in the 21st century.

- By 2020, up to 250 million Africans will face water shortages and agriculture yields in some African countries could be slashed by up to 50 percent.

- Some climate change impacts, like ice sheet loss, high sea level rise, flooding of low-lying areas and river deltas, and completely altered coast lines, would be irreversible.

Here is what Al-Gore thinks about the climate crisis:

There is no doubt that we must start put much more effort into helping the climate restore its normal “behavior” there are many innovative ideas and solutions to accomplish that, here is another idea on how things could be different:

The latest Climate Change conference took place at Durban in November 2011, here is a short brief of the status of negotiations by UNFCCC Executive Secretary:

The Panama Climate Change Conference took place in October 2011, here is the video summary of the main conclusions:

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The link between food security and climate, originally by Kanayo F. Nwanze, the President of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Many might think that there is some kind of a trade off between producing more food and saving the environment or the climate. This is not the case, at least according to Kanayo F. Nwanze. One of the thing the world should try and do is help small farmers to become more resilient to climate changes, that way the smaller farmers will be able to achieve two important things: Produce more food and make sure that it is sustainable to the ever changing environment.

The need to help smallholder farms to produce more food is crucial, in the near future there might be more mouths to feed then food if the farmers won’t be able to learn how to adjust to the environment changes.

Fossil fuel leads to world starvation?
According to FAO if the food industry will keep its dependency on fossil fuels there is a huge chance there won’t be enough food for the the world’s growing population. FAO recommend to the food industry to start using other energy sources then fossil fuels , the reasons are quite straight-forward:

- High and fluctuating prices
- Doubts over future availability
- Politics

The danger in putting a whole industry reliance on one energy source is simple – once that energy source is compromised or worst – gone, the whole industry that relied on that energy source might disappear as well. When it comes to food, this is something we can’t afford.

With this the climate change convention has always geared on the ways of making every aspect as possible and as working as possible for the good of our ozone layer. The convention gave the world new hope and direction in which our world really needs, without the guidance of the committee none of these would be even possible. And with another year getting to come close to the committee  it is a bright future in which everything should be put into place so that the Kyoto Protocol would be once followed properly by the people that support it.

It would be the perfect time to “work as a whole” just like Jan Pronk said on the Convention (Minister of Housing). This statement is really true. With the hopes of having everything in well good plans the future of the earth rely on this small but closely decided plans in which the world would benefit from. This would be very much in good play for everything that has to be done is yet to be done in the future. Also the convention rolled out plans for the future in achieving what they had problems in the past about. This would be to lower down the emissions of each and every country under the Kyoto protocol. Also with the Kyoto Protocol in hand as always the committee would want to urge every country on the world to participate.

With a good amount of numbers on our sides it would be best that many people would join in the Kyoto Protocol. Healing the world or making things even much longer as things are now would really make a huge difference in saving a lot of people in the future. Though the future is eminent and if we do not do something the pollution problem would just go skyrocket and would really destroy earth on what we know it is now! So in hopes of the new millennium at hand, the UNFCCC would want to urge the world in participating in this treaty.

And with the maximum temperature increase cap to every country under the protocol they would also be obliged to lower the maximum temperature increase in every country to 1.5 degrees in the near future. This would insure a world in which we would slowly work together in keeping the atmosphere in good shape. Also they talked about making a technological mechanism in which would greatly help the spread of new climate-friendly technologies. This would well point out to atmosphere-friendly chemicals, automobiles and everything that would generate that harmful gas on our atmosphere.

They would want to have the technological mechanism that would do so by the end of 2012, or as they hope so to achieve. Also the convention talked about having to have a fund in which they would use in developing countries. A fund in which a country can use in order to maintain the growth and structure of the main proceedings of the Kyoto protocol, this would well go with third world countries that are very eager to help change the world today. These are just a part of the whole scenario in which the convention was primarily talked about during the meeting. Also countries that are into the protocol have been asked to submit emission reduction targets for the coming years.

This would well come into play in the slow but surely reducing process of the greenhouse emission. Good thing about this convention is that when the countries where asked to submit the emission targets for the coming year they came up with a high number of 60% which is great news. Only if we can achieve this number so that the world we once new can come back and in hopes of not getting our atmosphere anymore damage at it is today. But as the Kyoto Protocol that has been running on the main talks when UNFCCC has a climate change convention seems a bit more far reachable at this moment, a time in which every country in this world will work together as one in maintaining the balance of cleanliness.

The Kyoto Protocol is a protocol made by UNFCCC as an international environmental treaty that would achieve the stabilization of greenhouse gas throughout the world. This protocol has been adopted since the December 11, 1997, there are 37 countries under this protocol since it was first started on late 97’ but the shocking thing is that these countries that are under in this protocol are just mere countries that haven’t done that bad for our earth. Meaning they are just mid-section countries in which they do not emit that much of harm to our planet but still they signed in the protocol. Now what they have done on November/December convention in Durban, South Africa is to specifically ask the UN world leaders that haven’t joined in to the protocol to please answer their call.

Two of the largest emitters of greenhouse gas would be China and The United States. In this conference they urge specially these two countries to go with the protocol. With this in mind we all know that the United States is a world power in which they control everything from wars and such. But to people that do not know about this protocol it is eminent that United States needs to sign this protocol. This would be a great help for the world to become a much more cleaner place to live in, not to mention we would make nature happy again and avoid natural calamities that are well made by greenhouse emissions.

Shocking thing is that the United States opted that they would go with the agreement on 2020, for they are under a “better agreement” between the European Union in which they would make a better clean world in the future. Seems like United States is just using delaying tactics to further more bathe in their greenhouse pollution! The thing here is that when a country signs the protocol, they should make sure that they would not emit those much harmful gases on the atmosphere, promoting a better world to live in. When talking about first world countries it would be very difficult for they have their own agendas, agendas in which they would really have a problem cutting off emissions for they would lose that much money from industries and so forth. Hopefully the protocol would reach to a point in which every country in the world is dedicated to do so.

But the most important thing that happened in Copenhagen was the Copenhagen Accord. This is an agreement in which all countries would make sure that the global temperature increases to not more than two degrees Celsius. Now this would fall out to pre-industrial levels in which countries that are heavily intertwined with industrial buildings would have a hard time coping with. Though the odds are very high, leaders of the world governments still agreed in making this accord. Also countries that agreed with this accord promised to give 30 billion dollars by the period of 2010-2012. And to further more up the long-term finance for the years to come.

This fund would be very much put well into use when fighting against greenhouse gas emissions. We all know that we are a very high industrialized world in which we need to lower down the use of such gas powered technologies that really destroys our atmosphere. With clean power plants and gas-free industrial complexes we would know that having this is more than just not turning these things off. We need to find ways in which we can minimise the use of these gas emitting monsters. If only the Kyoto Protocol would be taken seriously by huge players such as the United States the world would be a much better place to live in.

Once again the Kyoto Protocol is held and brought up to the conference. Though as usual countries that are not within the protocol seem really confident that they can do everything to help with the greenhouse problem that we are facing today! As long as they would help fund the international fund in which countries or third world developing countries can benefit from then they have bought themselves a few more years before they would give in to the protocol. This conference would sum up the end of 2009, and as the leaders in this conference always says that if we work together we can heal the world.

This fund would become very useful when it comes to keeping our mother earth clean as possible. This would come from two percent levy on projects that are under the “Clean Development Mechanism” a project that has been going on for years now in which all mechanisms used would need to have something less more “destructive” to our earth. Also this fund was very much accessible to developing countries, the board stated that all developing countries need to have direct access to this funds. With a developing country the last thing you would want to have is problems when it comes to pollution and stuff.

Also the conference saw interested parties that would well help on the year 2009, and in the future as well. Also as stated above the funding of the Clean Development Mechanism, the board clearly stated that they need to increase the level of funding for adoption and improvements in the incoming year. Also other important issues where focused on developing countries such as finance, tech, deforestation and disaster management. The conference had many leaders that supported this act and as the fund is all about the developing countries that are under this problems would have direct access to the fund as well.

Also the board was thinking of making future deals on Bonn in June next year 2009 and also with a future conference in Copenhagen as well. With the fund taken care of developing countries can now have their peace of mind in which they can have everything that they need when it comes to having funds for the Kyoto Protocol, going clean isn’t always that easy and being a developing country it would be really great if you would have countries helping you out going on the right way. Also the Kyoto committee urges as always that all countries would sign the Kyoto Protocol. This would really help on the long run as each and every country in the world would go with the protocol. And also with keeping the pre-industrial levels at a good level, going the Kyoto protocol would be really great, only if countries that emit harmful gases would sign the treaty.