Prime Minister Imran Khan pictured while addressing the MoU signing ceremony of the Ministry of Climate Change and World Bank, in Islamabad on January 4, 2022. PHOTO: APPPrime Minister Imran Khan has emphasised that preventing the expansion of cities has become inevitable to protect them from impacts of climate change. “Our cities are under stress and they are expanding and green cover is fading,” he said while addressing an MoU signing ceremony of the Ministry of Climate Change and World Bank in Islamabad on Tuesday. He added that Pakistan is in the top 10 countries which are most vulnerable to climate change, blaming the developed countries for moving too late to tackle the challenge of global warming. Also read: Pakistan’s climate change actions can serve as model“We are not responsible for it [climate change] the countries which emit the carbons most did not acknowledge the challenge of climate change and took steps very late,” he added.

Source: The Express Tribune January 04, 2022 19:28 UTC