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WHY DOES IT MATTER?
The entire planet is feeling the effects of climate change. Temperatures are rising, Armenia is already experiencing issues, including deforestation, illegal logging and desertification, complicated by the high usage of solid fuels. If efforts aren’t taken against climate change, we risk facing wildfires, droughts, and extremely unstable weather events, as well as a decrease of our precious biodiversity in Armenia.
Climate changes threaten everyone and everything, and Armenia is no exception with a noted shrinkage in water supplies, signs of desertification and deforestation.
Since the industrial revolution, human activities such as burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and certain types of livestock farming have released carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This has already caused the average global temperature to rise by more than 1°C, with levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere now higher than they have been at any point in human existence.
Although governments have committed to take action in a series of agreements since 1992, the global temperature is still set to rise over the coming decades. And scientists agree that more than 1.5°C of warming will likely have catastrophic impacts.
And all this could happen within a human lifespan, leaving our children and grandchildren to cope with the results.
"We need a rapid and deep change in the way we do business, how we generate power, how we build cities, how we move, and how we feed the world. If we don’t urgently change our way of life, we jeopardize life itself."
UN Secretary General
extreme weather
Increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather, from floods and storms to droughts and heatwaves, bring huge social and economic costs.
Melting ice
Water scarcity
damage to nature
Huge, irreversible damage to nature, putting increased pressure on the one million wildlife species already facing extinction due to human activities.
WWF works with the local government to combat adverse effects of climate change, especially with programs aimed at fighting deforestation and increasing forest resilience. More resilient forests can naturally withstand the effects of climate change, including drought, frost, floods on agriculture and help to improve biodiversity. We work to promote the use of renewable energy and incorporate the use of alternative energy sources in order to decrease the negative impact that we have on nature.
WWF raises awareness about the impacts of climate change by cooperating with educational institutions, state bodies, local communities and NGOs.