ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Romina Khurshid Alam has said that Pakistan was first South Asian country which launched World Economic Forum’s (WEF)’s National Plastic Action Partnership program and took lead against the war of planet versus plastic.
She was addressing a ceremony in COMSATS wherein ambassadors, counsellor generals and High Commissioners of more than 12 countries particularly ambassador of Azerbaijan (Chair of COP29) participated to show their commitment against plastic pollution, says an official statement issued here on Monday.
The PM’s Coordinator while underscoring the climate change said, we are taking measures on war footing against causes of climate change including incorporation of climate change in curriculum with collaboration of the Higher Education Commission and the Ministry of Federal Education.
She said the Prime Minister has one of the top priority to mitigate climate change and for this a committee was being constituted, consisted on all provinces including Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan.
Highlighting the contrasting actions of climate change, she said Africa was facing droughts simultaneously and Pakistan was facing floods issue so she emphasized on regional solution to combat the climatic crisis.
While highlighting the plastic hazards for aquatic biodiversity, she pointed out that 103 tonnes of plastic is dumped into water bodies which degraded the water quality and blocked drainage system.
She said 1600 tonnes of plastic is openly burnt and cause respiratory illness. These figure were withdrawing our attention to join one another and stand together to save our aquatic wildlife and planet from these hazards, she added.
The Prime Minister’s Coordinator noted that she is against to hold seminars in five star hotels which was waste of taxpayers money and the same amount can be used on mitigation.