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Pakistan: Climate Change Policy draft to be finalized soon: Javaid
Posted by Associated Press of Pakistan: None Given on March 14th, 2011
Associated Press of Pakistan: Pakistan would be listed among those few countries of the world who is moving forward to finalize the draft of Climate Change Policy which would be submitted in Cabinet for approval soon.This was expressed by Director General (Environment), Javaid Ali Khan in a meeting on Climate Change Policy Draft held today.
Various brain storming sessions were being held to make the proposed policy of Climate Change comprehensive, effective and result oriented, he said.
Maximum consultation is being done...
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Pakistan calls for reforming Int’l environmental system to deal with climate
Posted by Associated Press of Pakistan: None Given on December 5th, 2010
Associated Press of Pakistan: Citing the recent devastating floods, Pakistan has called for “urgent reforms” of the International Environmental Governance (IEG) system aimed at protecting the countries that were vulnerable to climate change. “In the wake of several environmental emergencies including in particular the growing threat from climate change, Pakistan agrees that status quo is not an option,” Senate Chairman Farooq H. Naek said while intervening in the Annual Parliamentary Hearing at UN Headquarters in New York.
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Flood-hit Pakistan faces more challenges from climate change, UN told
Posted by Associated Press of Pakistan: None Given on November 3rd, 2010
Associated Press of Pakistan: A Pakistani delegate told a UN General Assembly panel Tuesday that the "extraordinarily hard' floods in Pakistan have underscored the need to link adaptation of adverse impact of climate change to government's economic planning.Speaking in the 192-member assembly's economic committee, Farrukh Iqbal Khan, a counselor at the Pakistan Mission to the UN, also said Pakistan could face more challenges from climate change and he voiced disappointment over the slow pace of international negotiations to deal...