Govt urged to streamline resources

Climate change

PESHAWAR: Speakers at a conference on Monday stressed the need for streamlining resources to put an end to negative implications arising out of the climate change.They said that adaption was the only solution to protect crops, water resources and standard of life from green-house gas emission effects.

The three-day “National Conference on Thinking Climate Change Adaption in Water and Farming” was organised by the Climate Change Centre (CCC), housed on the premises of University of Agriculture, Peshawar. “Think-Adaption, 2016” is the motto of the conference this time.

Welcoming the scientists, scholars and researchers, Vice-Chancellor Dr Zahoor Ahmad Swati said it was a maiden event organised by the Climate Change Centre to invite the attention of the thinking minds towards how to cope with the declining and polluted environment.

He hoped that the Climate Change Centre’s first effort would prove a wakeup call for the policymakers to show some resilience against the depletion of environment.

Addressing the conference, the chief guest, Pakistan Water Environment Forum Chairman Nisar A Memon, stressed the need for the securing water resources, particularly of the storage of floodwater to raise the level of underground water.