Climate change
Climate change is the long term alteration of temperature and typical weather patterns in a place.
It is one of the major impacts over the past centuries. Due to all this, a number of plants, animal
and plant species have gone extinct. The climate started changing a long time ago due to human
activities but we came to know about it in the last century. During the last century, we started
researching on climate change and came to know that the earth temperature is rising due to a
phenomenon called effect. The warming up of earth surfaces causes many ozone depletions.
Climate change can be seen through the rising sea levels, shrinking mountain glaciers and
changes in flower blooming times. Continuous reliance on fossil based energy sources is a
barrier to emissions reductions, deforestation, oil drilling, industrialization, burning fossil fuels
and livestock farming terminate drought, bush fires, storms, floods, allergies, desertification,
landslides, soil biodiversity loss and elevated temperature. It also leads to displacement of people
and communities due to sea level rise, extreme weather events like storms and floods
If I were an ambassador for a day, I would inform the public about the dangers of climate
change. I would organise talk shows on televisions and radio, invite people with knowledge
about this phenomenon to educate youths. These would include grandparents who have first-
hand information on what the environment was like before the changes, scholars who have
extensive researched knowledge on climate change, influencers who may include celebrities for
their ability to reach the youth and influence their decisions because they are the biggest weapon
to the future of fighting climate change in the world through singing songs about the beauty of
nature to remind people on how it was like before these changes.. The talk shows help reach a
wider range and allow more interaction with the general public and so create control measures of
climate change in Uganda.
I would also hold campaigns to inspire people by speaking up about the dangers of climate
change to our planet. Campaigns help the general public to know about climate change and the
importance of taking action over it. I would also appeal to the country leaders to encourage their
cities, regions and universities and urge businesses to take urgent action towards net zero
emissions. Speaking up bridges the gap between people and the power to influence change and
those who can effect change.
I would also promote and prioritize the innovation of alternative green energies of every day
domestic use in the country and encourage all those around me to try and go green. So I would
look for other alternatives such as organising youth programmes.
I would also encourage countries to reduce carbon emissions by absorbing and stabilizing them
over a long period of time, many of the impacts on wildlife, land, water and people will be
irreversible once they occur which makes halting the release of green-house gas emissions and
limiting global warming possible in the near future to mitigate the extremity of pending disaster.
Much of electricity and heat are still powered by coal, oil, and gas. Airplanes and cars also run
mostly on fossil fuels. To reduce the carbon foot print, I would introduce solar system power
energy to people and encourage them to skip long haul flights and drives.
I would also encourage the government to reduce the number of food processing industries
because they contribute to the greenhouse gas emissions. This helps to reduce our impacts on
climate. I would also beg the country to use local seasonal foods, eat more plant based meals and
use up what they have then compost leftovers.
I would also recast climate as a development issue, encourage institutional innovation, orient
metrological services towards achieving development outcomes, strengthen research in support
of climate risk management and promote systematic knowledge sharing.
The scoping mission confirms that Uganda is highly vulnerable to climate change and climate
variability. Recent floods and droughts have demonstrated how tightly bound Uganda’s
economy, the wellbeing of its people and climate are. As existing high levels of climate
variability continue and conditions become warmer and possibly wetter because of human
induced climate change there are risks of catastrophic impacts on infrastructure, agriculture, the
environment and ecosystems. In conjunction with increasing pressure on natural resources, these
threaten to halt or reverse Uganda’s development over the coming century. It will undoubtedly
be the poor who feel these impacts the hardest.
Every one of us can help limit the global warming and take care of our planet by making changes
that have less harmful effects on the environment. We can all be part of the solution and
influence climate change. The future is in our hands.
