COP-24 Katowice A Challenging Moot With Opportunities

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Nov, 2018 ) :Adviser to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said that the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP-24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Katowice, Poland was not only challenging, rather it was a potential spot of opportunities for Pakistan to exhibit its achievements in climate change mitigation.

Earlier in a seminar on the conference, Malik Amin Aslam admitted that COP-24 was not like any usual international moot rather it had loaded more weight on the shoulders of developing countries. He added that in the times when developed countries particularly the major polluters are retreating from the Paris Agreement, it has become imperative for developing to focus on the right initiatives and strategies to be adopted for climate change mitigation.

Malik Amin Aslam had expressed his contentment over the preparations made by Pakistan for the representing its initiatives in coping with climate change impact to the international community. He said astonishingly Pakistan up till now has been spending its own resources for Climate Change projects that were even acknowledged by the international donors with great admiration.

He said that it was high time to bring climate politics at par with climate science which was still lagging behind the latter as the former was reversing its position at its part.

The Adviser on Climate Change is of the view that in the light of recent global reports we are stripping out the earth from its natural resources and if steps delayed at the brink of the moment would the initiatives to be taken under Paris accord till 2020 an elusive story.

The country despite a meager contributor to the global pollution had been facing direct impacts of the climate change however the government has managed to get all provinces involved on the right projects for climate change mitigation projects, he added. "We had a great opportunity to tell the world about our success stories of billion Tree Tsunami implemented in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reaching country wide to 10 Billion Tree to show our commitment to make the country climate change resilient," he maintained.