Pakistan has called for decisive action against climate change, and added that developing countries and small island states particularly face the existential peril of rising sea levels.
Addressing the Security Council earlier this week, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, said global warming was fast becoming a world condition.
The Daily Times quoted him, as saying: "If we are to have any chance at disaster prevention or consequence management, we must act quickly and decisively as coming catastrophes would exacerbate current conflicts."
He described climate change as an inescapable reality for Pakistan, adding that it was manifesting itself with increasing ferocity.
"While there is a global scientific debate going on about the level and timing of the glacial melt, the signs in Pakistan are ominously clear. In the province of Sindh with hundreds of thousand arable acres, water is down to less than half capacity," Haroon said.
"Pakistan's vast glacial area covers around 15,000 square km, which were in rapid retreat," he said, adding the rate of glacial recession had gone up by 23 percent in the previous decade. Of Pakistan's total area, 24 percent is cultivated out of which 80 percent is irrigated by water flowing through the predominantly glacier fed rivers of the county. (ANI)
Addressing the Security Council earlier this week, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, said global warming was fast becoming a world condition.
The Daily Times quoted him, as saying: "If we are to have any chance at disaster prevention or consequence management, we must act quickly and decisively as coming catastrophes would exacerbate current conflicts."
He described climate change as an inescapable reality for Pakistan, adding that it was manifesting itself with increasing ferocity.
"While there is a global scientific debate going on about the level and timing of the glacial melt, the signs in Pakistan are ominously clear. In the province of Sindh with hundreds of thousand arable acres, water is down to less than half capacity," Haroon said.
"Pakistan's vast glacial area covers around 15,000 square km, which were in rapid retreat," he said, adding the rate of glacial recession had gone up by 23 percent in the previous decade. Of Pakistan's total area, 24 percent is cultivated out of which 80 percent is irrigated by water flowing through the predominantly glacier fed rivers of the county. (ANI)
