ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change, Mushahid Ullah Khan, said on Friday that boosting tree plantation at all levels is must for protecting humans, animals and plants from delirious impacts of global warming.
In a press statement issued here in the context of the World Forest Day 2015, the minister stressed, “No matter how many trees are planted today will secure future of our existing and future generations from the devastating impacts of climate changing causing carbon emissions, particularly carbon dioxide.
Failing to which will only continue to expose humans and every kind of the life on earth to harmful effects of the global warming.
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This year, the World Forest Day (WFD) 2015 is being marked across the world including Pakistan under the theme “Forests and Climate Change”, which highlights forest-based solutions to address climate change mitigation and adaptation, and more broadly forests and sustainable development.
This global celebration of forests provides a platform to raise awareness of the importance of all types of forests and of trees outside forests.
Forests and trees offers key solution, most of the disasters triggered by climate change including (flash) floods, land erosion, river erosion, landslides and forest fires, he emphasized and added that they also sustain and protect us in invaluable ways.
Because, they provide the clean air that we breath and the water that we drink.
They host and safeguard the planet’s biodiversity and act as our natural defence against climate change.
Life on earth is made possible and sustainable thanks to forests and trees.
Talking about benefits of forests, the minister said, “Forests constitute to be the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on land, home to more than 80 per cent of the terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects.
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