The speakers at a seminar on Thursday emphasised that educating young girls on climate action was imperative for an effective intervention to protect the damaging environment from further deterioration.
The Women Welfare and Development Centre and Islamabad Crescent Lions Club and FHDP organised environment-friendly celebrations in connection with World Environment Day 2023 here, under the theme ‘Beat the plastic pollution’.
The event included seven activities comprising of youth assembly, speech competition, painting competition, essay writing, award show, tree plantation and magic show.
Member Inspection, Capital Development Authority (CDA), Romana Kakar as chief guest said the government was spending human resources and capital for the plantation but the public was not taking its ownership. “We have an inbuilt passion to protect the mother earth and nature so it’s needed to end our selfishness towards nature,” she added.
Kakar said World Environment Day demanded mankind to beat plastic pollution but it should be clarified that the public runs social media campaigns against profiteers but not against plastics.
RDF, President, Brigadier (R) Muhammad Aslam Khan said Pakistan had a very low tree cover as compared to the global average and it was necessary to overcome this gap and plant trees to enhance its green cover.
He highlighted that the major cause of urban flooding was plastics clogging sewers and drains in the cities. Therefore, the nation particularly its young daughters must pledge to end plastics from their lives.
In his welcome remarks, Founder of Islamabad Crescent Lions Club, Lion Sibtain Raza Lodhi said June 5th was celebrated as environment day across the world and “this year’s theme was solutions to plastic pollution”. There had been seminars and symposiums, including walks being made to create awareness on the pressing issue, he added.
