Climate Change and

Deforestation
Rodcel L. Lipana
BSIS 1-3
 Climate Change
 This is perhaps the most pressing environmental
issue in the world The extreme weather
condition are manifested be the rising
temperature in summer and the fading coldness
in winter; frequencies of the hotter days and
nights; fatal and damaging typhoons with
occasional and phenomenal windstorms; and the
EL Niño event, whose recurrences are alarming
causing severe droughts in some regions while LA
Nina event causes havoc because of intense and
heavy downpours resulting in floods and
landslides. All these affect various sectors, like
agriculture, fresh water, coastal and marine
resources, and health.
EL Niño
La Niña
 Climate Change
 The entire world is affected by Climate
change, and its effects are undauntedly
far reaching in nature causing damage in
properties and lives not only of humans
but also of all other living species in this
world. The presidential task force on
climate change have proposed the
following solutions:
1. Consumers may do their share through climate-friendly
energy supply mix, energy generation, and energy-efficiency
adaptation

2. Policy incentives for renewal energy schemes and climate-

friendly technologies must be made.

3. Subsidies for lowering costs for power generation using solar,

wind, and any other nature-based related technologies must
be given.
 Deforestation
 This environmental issue refers to the
destruction of vast areas of forests
through unsustainable forestry practices,
agricultural and rangeland clearing and
the over-exploitation of wood products
for use as fuel, without planting for new
growth.
 Philippines Deforestation
 The Philippines is one of the Asian countries that have experienced
the highest deforestation rates. The Department of Environment
and Natural Resources (DENR) has noted that the Philippines has
now only about seven million hectares of forest land left. For the
past 50 years, the Philippines has lost 2.4 acres of hardwood forest
every minute. Leaving only 21 percent forest covered. Though
illegal logging is tagged as the eventual culprit in this
environmental issue, it can also be seen as a trickledown effect of
the increase in consumption, extensive land conversions, and
increase in quantum of waste generation. Deforestation is massive
around urban areas since expansion is inevitable; hence, the
cutting of century-old trees has become a perennial environmental
issue among cities and urban places
Kaingin Farming
 Mining is also another cause of deforestation.
High demands for minerals, oils, and some other
such resources that can be mined have also led
to deforestation in different regions of the
world. The economic returns of mining activities,
however, cannot compensate for the vast loss of
the natural resources whose ill effects, like
exposures to toxic wastes caused by improper
disposals and the destruction of classified
biodiversity areas, would be experienced over
the decades and even centuries.
 With deforestation, a lot of endangered
species have lost their natural habitats. The
green cover is reduced globally, and this cause
much damage to natural ecosystems and
climate system of the world causing extinction
of wildlife and plant life, loss of natural timber
resources, soil erosion, disruption of water
cycle, loss of topsoil, silted streams, and
vulnerability to reserve weather fronts causing
natural calamities, like landslides and flash
floods claiming thousands of lives, and
homeless families. Forests provide life for
humanity; to sustain them is to endow a safe
haven for generation to come.
Thank you ^_^