Karachi, (PR) : While addressing the climate change awareness program organized by Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE), Director of Climate Action Center (CAC) Yasir Hussain Darya said that when it talks about environment and climate change, it means that we are talking about nature and nature means we are talking about land, water and air.
He said that we have to understand that we have to live together with nature. If we don’t live in harmony with nature, it will harm us in some other way, the biggest example of which was covid-19.
He said that Pakistan is the unfortunate country whose contribution in destroying the environment of the planet is only one percent but it is facing the worst effects of climate change while it is also affected by other countries in South Asia.
He said that the graph of air pollution is very high in two international cities of Pakistan, Lahore and Karachi.
According to the latest census data, Karachi is ranked 12th in the list of the most polluted cities with a population of 1.7 million people, while according to unofficial data, the population of Karachi is estimated to be 3.3 million people,he said.
In such a densely populated city, heat or high temperature is a natural requirement. In the month of June this year, the intensity of heat in the whole world was felt more than in the past. On June 28, 2024, Faisal Edhi, the head of the charity Edhi Foundation, told us that the number of people who died due to heat in their centers was 128, which the government officials did not believe,he said.
He further said that the world’s ecosystem can not be improved without reducing greenhouse gases, but despite this, some things have happened as a result of environmental and climate changes that can not be returned, such as there is an increasing temperature of the world which is going up very fast and now it has become permanent.
He said that Pakistan is the country which is not saying that it will suffer from climate change but we have already suffered. If we examine the causes of natural calamities like floods, temperature rise, earthquakes and others in Pakistan, they are related to the shortcomings of the local people as well as the influencing factors of the outside world.
He further added that the 2010 floods were caused by torrential rains in Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Similarly, the flood of 2022 was also caused by heavy torrential rains.
On this occasion, Yasir Hussain said that Bangladesh has taken more climate funds than us because it is more organized than us. Regarding Thar Coal, he said that we have to gradually move towards a new plant and there are such schemes, the Asian Development Bank will buy the entire coal plant and in this context we can also get climate fund along with it.
Alternative energy sources will have to be moved, according to experts, imported coal is not affected by solar in any case.
Vice President of CPNE Sindh, Aamir Mahmood, said that CPNE should work with CPNE on climate change. At the end of the ceremony, CPNE Finance Secretary Hamid Hussain Abidi thanked Yasir Hussain Darya and the CAC team.
Vice President CPNE Aamir Mehmood, Program Organizer Mehmood Alam Khalid, Finance Secretary Hamid Hussain Abdi, Joint Secretary Manza Saham, Senior Members Dr. Jabbar Khattak, Abdul Khaliq Ali, Ayaz Memon, Qasim Soomro, Ali Bin Younis, Salman Qureshi ,Shahid Sati, Khushi Muhammad, Rehman Sikandar, Asif Jameel and CAC representatives Jawaria and Afaq Ahmed were also present.