Sriram B

16\07\2013

Hyderabad is one of the fastest growing cities in India and has an estimated population

of around 7 million, expected to rise to 9 million in 2025 according to numbers of the

United Nations. This fast growth can partly be attributed to the exceptional economic

transformation it has experienced in the last 15 years. The former Chief Minister of

Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Chandrababu Naidu, voted into power in 1995, boosted the

economy by the introduction of reforms to promote foreign and national investments, in

order to take Hyderabad from traditional manufacturing towards a knowledge based

economy. Bureaucratic hurdles were smoothed out, investment incentives created and

prime land around Hyderabad was allocated at previously unthinkable speed to IT and

skill-intensive companies. Hyderabad’s IT booms, led to a shift in the city’s economic

and demographic structure.

As in the megacities of many developing countries the infrastructure in the newly

urbanized areas of Hyderabad cannot keep up with the rapid growth of the city. The city

is now under heavy air, water and notable sound pollution, which need to be taken care

of., not just only by the local authorities but also by the General Public at large.

Biodiversity generally tends to cluster in hotspots and has been increasing through time. Rapid environmental changes typically cause mass extinctions.  Since life began on Earth, five major mass extinctions and several minor events have led to large and sudden drops in biodiversity. The last 540 million years marked a rapid growth in biodiversity via the Cambrian explosion—a period during which the majority of multicellular phyla first appeared. The next 400 million years included repeated, massive biodiversity losses classified as mass extinction events. In the Carboniferous, rainforest collapse led to a great loss of plant and animal life.

The Permian–Triassic extinction event, 251 million years ago, was the worst; Vertebrate recovery took over 30 million years. The most recent, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, occurred 65 million years ago and has often attracted more attention than others because it resulted in the extinction of the dinosaurs. The period since the emergence of humans has displayed an ongoing biodiversity reduction and an accompanying loss of genetic diversity. Named the Holocene extinction, the reduction is caused primarily by human impacts, particularly habitat destruction. Conversely, biodiversity impacts human health in a number of ways, both positively and negatively.

Climate change is one of the major challenges facing the global population and the natural environment. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions released into the atmosphere in ever rapidly growing volumes are recognized to be responsible for this change.  Greenhouse gases can be emitted through transport, land clearance, and the production and consumption of food, fuels, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, and services. For simplicity of reporting, it is often expressed in terms of the amount of Carbon dioxide or its equivalent of other Green House Gasses, emitted.

Most of the carbon footprint emissions for an average household come from "indirect" sources, i.e. fuel burned to produce goods far away from the final consumer. These are distinguished from emissions which come from burning fuel directly in one's car or stove, commonly referred to as "direct" sources of the consumer's carbon footprint.

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