Govt to mobilize all resources to bring resilience to climate change: Ahsan Iqbal.

ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Planning, Development, and Special Initiatives Ahsan Iqbal Wednesday said that in the wake of the growing impacts of climate change, Pakistan's biggest challenge was to adapt the agriculture sector to climate change to ensure food security and boost the country's economic growth.

"We can build the infrastructures and dams with such specifications that can withstand the floods and heavy rainfalls but the most challenging task for my country is to adapt our agriculture economy to climate change because it is going to affect our productivity negatively, as all seeds and all practices are not aligned with new challenges", he said while giving a presentation on Pakistan Floods 2022, Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction Strategy at Pakistan Pavilion in Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Centre during COP27.

The minister said the government would try to develop research-based seeds and practices that could withstand extreme weather conditions such as extreme heat, cold, or rainfalls, according to a message received here on Wednesday.

Similarly, he said the government would mobilize all the resources within the government departments to work together to bring resilience to communities and governance structures.

The minister added that climate change was no more a fiction but a reality for millions of people around the world including Pakistan which had recently been directly hit by the worst climate disaster and also for the 220 million population that was indirectly affected by the climate disaster.

Prior to this devastation, we had an unprecedented heat wave with the projection that we might face drought but we faced heavy downpours of 600 to 900 percent more rains in those areas where normally there are very low or moderate rains, Ahsan Iqbal said adding that the worst part of this tragedy was that the worst devastation came in those districts of the country which...

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