Provinces, AJK assures help in dealing with climate change impacts

Islamabad
Top key representatives of all the provincial governments and Azad Jammu and Kashmir have assured to join hands with the federal government to deal with negative impacts of the climate change and boost country’s climate-resilience.
It was agreed among the participants of the high-level first meeting of the National Climate Change Policy Implementation Committee (NCCPIC) that provincial governments would act in support of the federal ministry of climate change for implementation of the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP), which is a viable roadmap for dealing with devastating impacts of the climate change on different socio-economic sectors of the country, particularly water, agriculture, energy and health.
The meeting was also attended, among others, by senior representatives of the Planning Commission of Pakistan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UN’s World Meteorological Organisation, UNDP, Islamabad-based Global Change Impact Study Centre (GCISC), LEAD-Pakistan and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-P).
It was decided that all the provincial governments including the AJK government would establish and notify provincial climate change policy implementation committees with additional chief secretaries (ACS) development as their respective chairpersons.