ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan expressed his resentment over non-serious attitude and response of the rich polluting countries in tackling global warming and extending financial and technical support to the poor countries boost their climate-resilience against unavoidable climate change.
Addressing the national consultative workshop on environment, climate change, biodiversity, land degradation, ozone depletion, urged the developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and other Asia-Pacific countries to stand united against hypotactic attitude of the rich polluter countries and force these environmental culprits to pay for the global environmental damages and global warming, which is afflicting the economies, people and biodiversity so dangerously.
The event was organized here on Wednesday by the Ministry of Climate Change and Global Environment Facility (GEF), which is a partnership for international cooperation where 183 countries work together with international institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector, to address global environmental issues.
The sad truth is that the poorest countries including Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh on the planet will be hit first and hardest by ‘now unavoidable’ climate change, he warned and said, “During the last decade it is poor counties like Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Philippine, Honduras, Myanmar and Thailand that have been most battered by the climate change disasters including floods, storm and cyclones.
“It is matter of grave concern for developing countries like Pakistan that they have been left on their own mercy for coping with climate change-induced disasters, particularly floods, cyclones, hurricanes, sea-level rise, land sliding, and river erosion. Whereas, the rich countries continue to increase pace of global warming by increasing their carbon emissions,” he exploded in angry tone during his address.
Mushahidullah Khan said that rich countries have achieve economic growths at the cost of environment and for this purposes exploited natural resources, particularly water, forests, land in unsustainable and cruel manner.
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