Climate Change and Development

Extreme Weather Events• Vice-president of UN’s IPCC – the ‘dramatic’

weather patterns are consistent with changes in the climate caused by mankind

• "Extreme events are one of the ways in which climatic changes become dramatically visible.“

• Lancet Medical Journal – “Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.”

Pakistan and Climate Change

Affected By A Changing World

“Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century”

(UCL Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change,15 May 2009)

Pakistan’s Health Risks – up to:

• 1.5 million cases of diarrheal diseases

• 140,000 of cholera

• 150,000 cases of measles

• 350,000 cases of acute respiratory infections

• 100,000 cases of malaria

Over the next 3 months.

Ethics of Climate Change1. We know that the creation gases such as CO2, cause climate change.

5. We should take action by stopping unnecessarily contribute to the creation of gases that causes climate change in order to stop causing harm to the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world.

4. We knowingly and unnecessarily put the livelihoods and lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world at risk.

3. We knowingly and unnecessarily contribute to the creation of gases that cause climate change. We can take action by contributing less.

2. We know climate change puts the livelihoods and lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the world at risk.

People Causing Detrimental Change

Threats – First Feature

Those Affected

Violates Our Moral Sensibilities

Slow Change

Present Threats

Elon Musk

Changing the World

• PayPal• Tesla• Solar City• Space X

International Agreement

Birthday Cake SolutionAustralia – 6 years of emissions remaining at current rates of use and it will have to last us until 2050

We emit almost twice as much as people from Germany

We emit almost 15 times as much as people from India

We emit more that 450 times as much as people from Burkina Faso

Historical Responsibility