ACTIVE FOR THE FUTURE ENVIRONMENT NETWORK

The environment “The Mother Nature” a home for everyone, is invaded by human activities causing its severe degradation.

Environmental degradation is the exhaustion of the world's natural resources: land, air, water, soil, among others. It occurs due to crimes committed by humans against nature due to economic development. Individuals are disposing of wastes that pollute the environment at rates exceeding the wastes’ rate of decomposition or squandering and are overusing the renewable resources such as agricultural soils, forest trees, ocean fisheries, to mention but a few at rates exceeding their natural abilities to renew themselves. Therefore, the environment's capacity to withstand the negative impacts due to human activities has diminished and environmental degradation has become a threatening issue.
According to Rashwet “phytomanagement of polluted sites” 2019,environmental degradation has become a “common concern” for humankind over the past few decades. The distinctive nature of the present environmental problems is that they are caused more by anthropogenic than natural phenomena. Mindless consumerism and economic growth have started to demonstrate malicious effects on Mother Nature as mentioned previously. In spite of this, the pace and desire for economic development have never ceased thus dictating the environmental policy not only partially but the whole world.
Emphasis has been placed on the role of science and technology as a catalyst for integrating ecology with economics. In this process, sustainable development became a buzzword, but all in all the Mother nature continues to suffer the consequences. Climate change being the master scourge consequence affecting the world.
According to US fourth national climate assessment 2014 earth’s climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization, primarily as a result of human activities. Over the last 50 years, human activities particularly the burning of fossil fuels have released sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to trap additional heat in the lower atmosphere and affect the global climate, causing between 93% to 123% global warming since 1951-2010 and this has been also manifested by and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC), with 100% since 1950.
In Europe as the rest of the world, climate change affects both people and the environment and human-induced climate change has the potential to alter the prevalence and severity of extreme weather like storms, floods, droughts, heat waves and cold waves thus increase in disease spread in both animals and humans. The summer of 2003 was recorded the hottest in Europe since the latest ad 1500, and unusually large numbers of heat-related deaths were reported in France, Germany and Italy. The three European countries most affected by climate change Lithuania, Finland, Latvia Whereas the three European countries least affected by climate change Iceland, Greece, Norway (European Environment Agency 2012.)
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Africa is among the most vulnerable continents to climate change due to its geographic position and the effects of climate change are already being felt. and will increase in magnitude if action is not taken to reduce global carbon emissions across Africa which is now being evidenced by changes in temperature. These climatic events are predicted to increase in the future and are expected to have significant consequences to the agriculture sector. This would have a negative influence on food prices, food security, and land use decisions. Yields from rain fed agriculture in some African countries could be reduced by up to 50% by 2020. The changes in temperature also negatively affects the health of humans and animals, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security in African countries and seven of the ten countries most at risk from climate change are in Africa according to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index for 2015.
There has also been a decrease in rainfall over large parts of the Sahel and Southern Africa, and an increase in parts of Central Africa. Over the past 25 years, the number of weather-related disasters, such as floods and droughts, has doubled, resulting in Africa having a higher mortality rate from droughts than any other region. Despite the fact that the African continent has contributed the least to anthropogenic factors causing climate change, Africa is the worst hit. (IPCC, 2014).
Eastern Africa is characterized by high spatio-temporal rainfall variability mainly controlled by large scale systems such as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ),[7] variations in Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of different ocean basins and tropical cyclones. Recent studies on climate projections noted that the frequency and intensity of rainfall extremes has been on the rise in the recent past and that average temperature might increase by about 2-3 °C by the middle of the 21st century and 2-5 °C at the end of the century. It is estimated that if global temperatures rise by 2 °C instead of 1.5 °C, then temperatures over Eastern Africa are likely to increase at a faster rate than the global average (Jennifer M; et al 2011).
Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East Africa region and was said to be “the worst drought in 60 years.” Other effects included flooding, drought, change in distribution of rainfall, drying-up of rivers, melting of glaciers and the receding of bodies of water (Panthou, G.; et al. (2018).
Uganda
Uganda's climate is naturally variable and susceptible to flood and drought events which have had negative socio-economic impacts in the past. Human induced climate change is likely to increase average temperatures in Uganda by up to 1.5 ºC in the next 20 years and by up to 4.3 ºC by the 2080s.The climate of Uganda is predicted to become wetter on average and the increase in rainfall may be unevenly distributed and occur as more extreme or more frequent periods of intense rainfall.
Regardless of changes in rainfall, changes in temperature in semi-arid areas in Uganda is rising, especially in the southwest and is likely to have significant implications for water resources, food security, natural resource management, human health, settlements and infrastructure. In Uganda, as for the rest of the world, there are likely to be changes in the frequency or severity of extreme climate events, such as heat waves, droughts, floods and storms being driven by a range of factors that includes weak adaptive capacity, high dependence on ecosystem goods for livelihoods, and crude agricultural production system which is likely to cause severe consequences on lives and sustainable development prospects in the country. The Human induced climate change in the coming century has the potential to reverse the country's development trajectory with increased food insecurity; shifts in the spread of diseases like malaria; soil erosion and land degradation; flood damage to infrastructure and settlements and shifts in the productivity of agricultural and natural resources. These coupled with other drivers of vulnerability such as high fertility rates, limited access to land and other forms of poverty, make life more difficult. (Nicholson; et al. 2018).
Climate change mostly affects women, children and the elderly in most of the countries, women and children often experience additional duties as caregivers and the society respond to climate change after extreme weather events (male migration),walking long hours to fetch water, exposed to diseases, limited mobility and reduced intake of food, heat stress and wildfires Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC,2014)
Global climate is projected to continue changing over the 21st century and the magnitude of climate change beyond the next few decades depends primarily on the amount of heat trapping gases emitted globally and how sensitive earth’s climate is to those emissions.
This to be arrested, calls for world development agencies, communities and state institutions to devise means of mitigation and adaptation strategies to manage the eco-system goods and service within the mother nature for sustainably resources utilization.
Project Main goal: Reduction of economic losses due to climate related disasters and advocating for low-carbon development initiatives among
communities of partner countries.
Objectives:
o To create climate change awareness among the target communities within the partner participating organizations.
o To emphasize efforts of integrating risk management measures to climate change disasters.
o To establish climate change information hub among the participating partner countries.
o To put in place best practices and methodologies adopted by communities in tackling climate change already existing effects.
Activities:
o Kick off meeting.
o Dissemination and Awareness.
o Conducting desk top research
o Mobility for analyzing research results for the hub and publish the hand book.
o Establishment of information hubs

NB. We are looking for any EU Organization or a university that can apply and coordinate the project