Islamabad, November 19, 2019 (PPI-OT): While addressing the annual international conference on the economy of Pakistan emerging challenges prospects for change and road to prosperity Malik Amin Aslam the advisor to Pm on Climate change said Pakistan Govt is working on five point agenda to manage the issues of climate change and pollution. The flagship program is to plant 10 billion trees to help the world and to help the Pakistan toward the green growth of economy. the second agenda is the introduction of E vehicles as 40% of greenhouse gasses emissions in Pakistan are due to existing transport system, so the reasons of introducing E vehicle is that they will reduce the emissions by 60 % ,cost of running the cars becomes cheaper , oil import will get decreased, and new industry will spark up in Pakistan.
The third initiative is ban on plastic bag that is successfully implemented in Islamabad, but we are working on it in all provinces of Pakistan. The fourth agenda is the CGP index that is tehsil dist. Level index to manage the solid and liquid wastes, a big liability in Pakistan. And finally, there is recharge Pakistan that is ecosystem restoration and ground water recharge initiative. He said that currently Pakistan is facing two big challenges, pollution and climate change that are not only the environmental issues but have economic dimensions as well. He said the World Bank report 2006 -2016 analyse the cost of environmental degradation to Pakistan is increased by 3% from 6% of GDP in 2006 to 9% of our GDP.
50 % of this increase is because of air pollution, 30% by water pollution and 20% is because of land degradation. He said that Pakistan is among the top 10 countries vulnerable to climate change over the past decade and we are paying high economic cost for that due to its geography and topography. And we are working on the issue very seriously to mitigate the effects of climate change and a progressive move toward the green economic growth.
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