The Experts at a seminar on rising global warming and climate change impacts on the region on Monday agreed that amid lacunas and shortcomings in the national policies and frameworks designed to cope with environmental degradation the country needed pragmatic and actionable legislation to enhance country’s resilience against whooping impacts of climate change.
The experts were expressing their views at a round table discussion titled “Tipping points: Overshoot Scenarios, A Point of No Return” organized by the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS) here. During the discussion, CEO Civil Society Coalition for Climate Change (CSCCC), Ayesha Khan said that we were on the verge of crossing climate tipping points, the effects of which will be irreversible. She added that it was going to trigger social unrest as well as national and human security challenges in the country.
Aisha Khan said the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) by the country were taken forward but the projects projected by previous regime under that were not practical rather ambitious that lacked funding.
She added that climate change is across the party lines that that demanded a permanent apolitical body that does not gets affected by the change of governments.
