Global warming biggest challenge of present century

Islamabad: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan said that the global warming, which continue to unleashed devastating impacts in different parts of the world including Pakistan, has emerged to be the biggest challenge of the present century.
He was addressing as a keynote speaker at a three-day high-level policy workshop on “Intended Nationally Determined Contributions” (INDCs) - an initiative meant for putting the world on the carbon-free pathway that leads to sustainable development.
“The very existence of the mankind has been at stake because of the climate change, for it has increased frequency in flash floods, forest fires, erratic and torrential rains and led to sea-level rise, melting of glaciers at a higher pace, erratic and irregular and depleting river flows and overall environmental degradation,” he said.
The minister said though every country has become vulnerable to the delirious effects of the climate change, unfortunately the developing countries like Pakistan and the least developed like Nepal are the ones likely to be hit hard by the unpredictable climatic conditions.