Climate change and the environment: issues and geoinformation challenges

Global warming is real. Its direct impact is on the climate and consequently on the environment, human life and socioeconomic activities. Many countries of the world are experiencing extreme weather conditions and climate change natural disasters which scientists have concluded are being induced by climate change.

Scientists and major research centers in industrialized countries have concluded that human activities, through the emission of C02 into the atmosphere is the single major cause of climate change and the unpredictable weather conditions the world over.

While the industrialized countries of the world, the major contributor to climate change have the capacity to respond to the impact of climate change, most developing countries do not have adaptive capacity to global warming. They therefore need help from developed countries to fight the effects of climate change on their environments and economic security. Man as a resource is the most precious within the biosphere, but equally at the same time the most dangerous as man's activities, especially the exploitation of resources, sustenance and creation of wealth, produce potentially adverse effects not only on the immediate surroundings but also on the ecosystem.

In all global warming and environmental issues, man is the problem and man is the solution. Without human activities the environment and nature will take care of the balance of the ecosystem in a sustainable manner. Therefore if man must continue to exist on earth, he must utilize and use natural resources in the most prudent and sustainable manner.