CLIMATE CHANGE - HOW

Depletion of ozone layer

Global warming
FACTS – SCIENTIFIC PROOF
IMPACTS AND EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Impacts on humans
• Economy
• Agriculture
• Health

Impacts on animals and

env.
• Endangered species
• Unbalance of food
chains and nature,
life cycles
IMPACTS CONTINUED

https://climate.nasa.gov/effects/ (visit the link and just go through the sub

headings)
SRI LANKA AND CLIMATE CHANGE

• Scientific evidence
• regional variation in temperature from 26 – 28 (bluff about the figures)
• Changes in precipitation and monsoon patterns
• Severity of extreme weather events such as floods and draughts recently
POLICY IMPLEMENTATIONS
PROGRAMES BY THE GOVERNMENT (BLUFF ON THESE)

• National action plan for haritha lanka programme

• Sri Lanka comprehensive disaster management programme (2014-2018)
• National action plan for combating degradation of lands in Sri Lanka
• Coastal zone management plan
• National Physical plan
• Sri Lanka water development pan
• National agriculture policy
POSSIBLE CROSS QUESTIONS SHE MIGHT ASK

• If there are plans to control and take action towards weather extremes why
do the people suffer from draught and flood?
Answer
Sri Lanka lacks the technological know how and proper funding to research and
execute excellent plans for disaster management. However, we are trying out
best to reduce the intensity of these weather extremes.
CONTINUED…

• What have you taken so far to mitigate agriculture?

• ANSWER
• Research in seeds and stuff… are underway in Research institutes in
talawakele and Haggala
• What are the other plans that should be taken to overcome these mishaps
within the country?