FJWU symposium terms Climate Change a security risk.

RAWALPINDI -- The climate change risk remains a major impediment to human security, depicts the outcome of symposium on Climate Change Risk and Human Security held here on Tuesday at Fatima Jinnah Women University (FJWU).

The symposium was based on Higher Education Commission (HEC) funded National Research Program for Universities (NRPU) Project awarded to project team at Department of Economics. The symposium was moderated by Ms. Khudeeja Nadeem, student of BS Economics while Prof. Dr. Bushra Yasmin, Project PI, presented the project overview.

Prof. Dr. Bushra Yasmin elaborated that project is grounded on people's perception-based measure of climate change and offers wider information on exposure, sensitivity and adaptability of household towards climate change risk.

The project helped in suggesting indigenous policy solutions and providing rationale for introducing awareness campaigns to help people in developing resilience and mitigate the adverse effects of climate change on human security.

She expressed her hope that the project findings and outcome of the awareness campaign would be long-lasting and fruitful in guiding the stakeholders to take effective measures to tackle the climate change risk at community level.

Expressing her gratitude to HEC for project funding she hoped that HEC would keep supporting such research endeavors of the universities in filling the academia-industry and policy makers' gap.

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