Climate governance major issue of Pakistan to tackle climate change: Khan.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman Department of Environmental Sciences, Islamic International University Islamabad Dr Muhammad Irfan Khan has said that Pakistan is persistently among the top ten countries most vulnerable due to climate change and climate governance was a major issues of the country to tackle rising environmental degradation.

The Chairman Department of Environmental Sciences in an exclusive chat with reporter in connection to World Environment Day 2022 said the country's major issue was of governance as their were policies but no instruments of implementation and if they existed in any case then the departments concerned lacked human, technical and financial capacity to implement those functions.

The theme for this year's world environment day was #OnlyOneEarth.

The geographical location of the country was naturally a disaster prone terrain as it possessed the world's largest ice reserves after the North and South Poles in its Northern areas that were the origin of our rivers, he said.

He said the global warming due to increasing emissions across the world were causing temperature rise driving glacial melting leading to floods. The country could not develop any proper reservoir in the past 50 years to conserve that floodwater which could help mitigate the flood disasters, he added.

He said the shift in rain pattern was also disturbing the hydrological cycle incurring impacts on the crop cultivation practices damaging the country's...