Causes of climate change

 what are the reasons of climate change  and what are its causes of climate change 2024

 What is climate change 

           Climate change refers to changing in weather patterns that resulted in high temperature in different seasons, changing in wind directions, excessive rainfall and excessive heat stroke that affects'' day to day life of people living in different regions. now climate change is raising as an huge emerging problem .and people try to take all corrective actions that can help to deal with this raising problem worldwide. But before jump into solution one should know the causes of this burning issue . And there were several reasons which are as follows ,which contributes in climate change 

Causes of Climate Change 

1)    Burning Fossil Fuels

 burning of fossil fuels like coal , oil and natural gas plays a great role in climate change as it is mostly used for energy generation and transportation, for example countries such as china and united states use coal for energy generation and leads to significant emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) into atmosphere. Moreover according to (IEA) international energy agency the energy sector contribute 73% in global warming .[Source: International Energy Agency (IEA) - "Global Energy Review 2021"]

2)   Deforestation

          Second reason of climate change is deforestation . specially deforestation in amazon forest release a huge amount of carbon stored in trees into atmosphere and same happened to brazil which experience deforestation at a vast level due to agriculture, logging and urbanization and loss of forestation change regional and local climate pattern . And as report of food and agriculture organization (FAO) deforestation is responsible about 11% of greenhouse gas emission. [Source: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) The State of the World's Forests 2020]

3) Industrial Process 

        third reason of climate change in industrial process , there are certain process that contribute significantly in climate change such as manufacturing of cement that involve heating limestone              ( calcium carbonate ) at a high temperature and releases CO2 as byproduct  . And china being a largests manufacturer of cement so it is a huge contributor on greenhouse gas emission. moreover as per the global carbon projects reports industrial activities contribute around 21% in greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. [Source: Global Carbon Project - "Carbon Budget and Trends 2021"]

4) Agriculture

        fourth contributor to greenhouse gas emission is agriculture were livestock farming is a major source of methane emissions. for example largest beef producer countries such as brazil and united states release methane by using enteric fermentation in cattle digestion same goes to rice cultivating countries like china and india which emit methane by flooded paddies. moreover (IPCC) reported that usage of lands contributes 23% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. [Source: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - "Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems"]

5) Waste Management 

         last but not least cause of climate change is improper waste management for example organic waste in landfills undergoes anaerobic decomposition, producing methane . And place like india were no proper solid waste management doesn't exist become a huge emission of greenhouse gas. moreover as per the report of world bank improper solid waste management contribute 5% in green house gas emissions. [Source: World Bank - "What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050"]