Naveed Hussain Chandio
Prime minister Shahbaz sharif on Friday call upon the regional countries to stand against devastation through sustainable programs. This indeed is source of anxiety, that every year temperature is increasing day by day and which results in global warming and melting of glaciers which unfortunately results in sea level rise and causes many islands inundated and islands will the become history, that once upon a time there was Island. The devastation that befallen on Pakistan was indeed climate injustice, however Pakistan shall have to come up with sustainable programs to mitigate the devastation caused by monsoon. However on the other hand prime minister’s address at twenty second summit of SCO (Shanghai cooperation organisation) to the heads of States of undesignatory countries was appreciated, SCO’s purpose was to rival the west and modernise the East, however the climate injustice to South Asia needs to take on serious and emergency note.
All the countries of the region will have to initiate the sustainable programs to fight the war of climate change which will result in the clean sweep of humanity from the face of world if lost, like happened with dinosaurs.
First priority of PM Shahbaz Sharif shall have to initiate the programs in his country, before urging the other’s country because revolution have to come from self before preaching to others.
Sustainable programs are not impossible as we all are thinking, programs which will mitigate the climate change are, fibre sourcing, for organisations they do not own or manage land but do produce wood directly from forest, sustainable forestry initiative must show that raw material in the supply chains did not comes from illegal tree cutting , however from certified lawfully SFI certified organisations.
I personally appreciate the Imran khan’s ten billion tree tsunami drive for reforestation which helped many deforestated forests become reforestated, so second program is reforestation, to grow trees where the deforestation happened.
Third program is conversion and biodiversity, it is a practice of saving variety of species from converting to endangered species, by preservation of them, it is important for health, ecosystem and food. Fourth is water management, in this process state shall draw planning, developing and managing water resources in preserving both water quality and quantity .Fifth one is solid waste, it includes solids or semi-solids, non soluble materials which block the sewerage system, examples are agriculture refuse ,demolition Waste, mining residue’s, municipal Garbage and sewage sludge. Sixth one is emissions like car exhausts, burps and radio broadcasts, the gases which released in the air by openly,like emissions from power plants and factories.
Thus needs to reduced by introducing electric cars, carbon-free factories, shutting down of the plants. If these programs are applied as soon as possible , we shall see reduction of devastation in few years, if our peoples are taking it light we will see frequently devastation every year, like monsoon induced flooding , melting of glaciers, global warming.