Share:ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif Tuesday direct­ed to constitute an Expert Com­mittee on Climate Change which would be advising the Feder­al Government with regard to strategies on the issues relat­ed to various aspects of climate change such as climate finance, adaptation, and loss and dam­age assessment. The prime minister, who was chairing the first meeting of Pa­kistan Climate Change Coun­cil (PCCC) here, commended the initiative of the Ministry of Climate Change with regard to the constitution of the Climate Change Council and praised the Minister for Climate Change for pleading the case of Pakistan with regard to climate change, globally. He said the climate change in­duced devastating floods had caused havoc across the coun­try, especially in the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. The prime minister urged the need to improve risk mapping, capacity building to access cli­mate finance as well as loss and damage assessment ability. Pakistan faced 152 extreme events related to climate change in the last two decades and there was 300 percent increase in Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF), the meeting was told.

Source: The Nation October 19, 2022 05:53 UTC