All resources to be moblised for GB's climate resilience: Amin Aslam.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam said the present government was taking all-out measures to help Gilgit-Baltistan government to overcome challenges of environmental degradation, solid waste, climate change and deforestation.

'Prime Minister Imran Khan-led government was aware of the exacerbating challenges being faced by the climate-vulnerable region of Gilgit-Baltistan, which have led to negative fallouts for various social and economic sectors particularly water, energy and agriculture,' Malik Amin Aslam said during his meeting with the Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan here on Thursday in a press release.

While referring to various climate change and environment-related studies of the Pakistan Meteorological Department, Malik Amin Aslam highlighted that over recent years, the global warming-caused events of glacial melting, glacial lake outburst floods, riverine floods and shifting rainfall patterns that had shown rising frequency and intensity, affecting badly not only socio-economic lives of the region but also those in the southern parts of the country.

Meanwhile, sharing about deleterious impacts of environmental degradation and climate change, the Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister informed the Prime Minister's aide Malik Amin Aslam that lack of alternative to fuelwoods, which was mined from the local forest areas, had led to massive tree-felling unabated since long.

Besides, galloping human populations in the region and mass tourism, characterized by unsustainable tourism practices, have proved devastating for the Gilgit-Baltistan region's once pristine, serene and untainted environment and polluting the turquoise river waters with solid waste, the...

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