Government to prepare master plan to ring-fence cities to combat climate change

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Jan 4, 2022: Prime Minister Imran Khan has stressed that it has become imperative to stop the expansion of cities to protect them from the effects of climate change.

“Our cities are under pressure and they are expanding and the green cover is disappearing,” he said at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Climate Change and the World Bank in Islamabad on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said that with the rapid expansion of urban areas, it would not be possible for the authorities to keep the environment clean and prevent rivers and canals from becoming polluted.

Citing Lahore as an example, Prime Minister Imran said the level of pollution in the city has increased significantly due to large-scale deforestation and “now poor air quality is affecting its residents”.

The prime minister said his government was working on a master plan to ring fence the cities so that they would not spread beyond certain limits. He further said that Pakistan was one of the 10 countries most at risk from climate change, adding that developed countries were responsible for the long delay in tackling the challenge of global warming.

“We are not responsible for climate change, the countries which emit the carbons most did not acknowledge the challenge of climate change and took steps very late,” he added.

Prime Minister Imran said his government’s “Ten Billion Tree Tsunami” plan was necessary to increase the country’s greenery and protect the country from the effects of global warming.

He added that cadastral mapping by the government shows that many forests in the country have been seized and are only on paper. Prime Minister Imran said that the authorities would monitor the national parks of the country through drones and satellite images so that their encroachments could be stopped.

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