Coordinated efforts needed to overcome challenges: Sherry.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman on Wednesday stressed the need for making coordinated efforts by all the stakeholders to overcome the confronted challenges related to the national economy, climate change, energy and depleting water resources to achieve sustainable economic growth and bringing the country out of the looming crisis.

Participating in the federal budget 2022-23 debate, she said the government would have to take tough decisions to break the debt trap and bringing fundamental changes in economic model, putting it back on the right track.

She apprised the House that climate change was a serious matter that required special and coordinated attention to minimize its adverse impact on local agriculture and eco-system.

Expressing concerns over the wastage of water, she said Pakistan was among the top four countries having highest per-capita water consumption.

She urged rationalizing the water usage for both domestic and irrigation purposes, besides taking measures to stop polluting the water resources.

Senator Sherry Rehman also expressed concern over the rising pollution of Indus-delta which threatened marine life, asking for collective efforts to overcome the challenge.

Sherry Rehman said the incumbent collation government had inherited a fragile economy, which was the result of inefficiencies and incompetence and mismanagement of the last government.

While criticizing the policies of the PTI government, she said unwise and irrational commitments and agreements signed with international financial institutions had put the local economy on ventilator.

She said, 'the accountability government (PTI)' when came into power, the corruption index had...