Analysis Report

Global Environmental Change

PALAKH AGARWAL
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Factual What is the environment?

The environment is something you are very
familiar with. It's everything that makes up
our surroundings and affects our ability to
live on the earththe air we breathe, the
water that covers most of the earth's
surface, the plants and animals around us,
and much more.
In recent years, scientists have been
carefully examining the ways that people
affect the environment. They have found
that we are causing air pollution,
deforestation, acid rain, and other problems
that are dangerous both to the earth and to
ourselves. These days, when you hear
people talk about the environment, they
are often referring to the overall condition of
our planet, or how healthy it is.

What is happening to the

environment?
Our environment is in need of a lot of work. The ozone layer is quickly
rotting away; the waters are polluted; and the rain forest is rapidly shrinking
in size due to the ignorance of land developers. So why isn't anything being
done? Everyone thinks if they ignore the problem, it will go away.

What are the natural aspects of

the environment?
How can the environmental impact of World Bank lending be calculated?
The Operations Policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), requires that
the World Bank systematically analyses whether specific country policies
supported by an operation are likely to have 'significant effects' on the
countrys environment, forests, and other natural resources. Through this
analysis, the World Bank hopes to ensure that there is adequate capacity in
the country to deal with adverse effects on the environment, forests, and
other natural resources that the policies could trigger, even at the
programme design stage.

Conceptual How do we destroy the

environment?
Pollution - land, air, water, and nuclear pollution have had many adverse influences on
the environment. Other pollutants also have negative effects on the environment
Deforestation - natural habitats of animals are destroyed, the organisms are force to
migrate or die, disrupting the food chain/web and thus the ecosystem and also resulting
in negative effects on the environment.

Why is it important to care

about the Environment?
The more you dont care about our environment, the more it will become polluted with
contaminants and toxins that have a harmful impact on our health.

Debatable Is man greatest threat to the

Environment?
Researchers who analysed 30,000 academic studies dating back to 1970 said man was
responsible for changes that ranged from the loss of ice sheets to the collapse in
numbers of many species of wildlife.