Sindh Will Establish Dedicated Department To Fight Climate Change: Minister

Sindh Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Nawabzada Mohammad Taimoor Talpur on Monday said that a dedicated department to cope with the climate change will be established soon

KARACHI, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Apr, 2019 ) :Sindh Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Coastal Development Nawabzada Mohammad Taimoor Talpur on Monday said that a dedicated department to cope with the climate change will be established soon.

He was addressing a gathering of industrialists at a seminar held on the eve of World Earth Day in the secretariat of Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) here, said a KATI statement here.

President KATI Danish Khan, Director General Sindh Environmental Protection Authority, Naeem Ahmed Mughal, Chairman and CEO KITE Zubair Chaya, Director TDAP Gulzar Feroz, KATI's former president Masood Naqi, Head of KATI's standing committee on environment Saleem-uz-Zaman also attended.

The Minister said that climate change had never been considered as a serious issue in our country and there was urgent need to address it. A dedicated department would be established to respond to emerging serious challenge of climate change.

He said Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah and his minsters were working on the vision of Chairman PPP Bilawal Butto Zardari. Sindh Government was working to improve the working of Solid Waste Management in Karachi.

The requirements of staff would be provided to SEPA.

President KATI Danish Khan said all the concerned institutions including Karachi Water ans Sewerage board, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, District Municipal Corporations should collectively work to safeguard and improve environment.

He showed concern over increasing pollution in the sea and said that government had asked each industrial unit in the city to establish an effluent treatment plant (ETP). It was impossible to bear the cost of ETP because one plant costs more than Rs 120 million. This would increase the cost of doing business which would directly affect our competiveness in international market.

He urged that combine ETP was the only solution and five of these plants would start working soon in Karachi.

SEPA's Director General said that due to less plantation and other polluting factors, the climate had changed which had become a serious challenge to the country.

He said that pollution on costal belts caused drastic effects on the marine life.

He said that Karachi produced 12 tons solid waste in a day, 50 percent