Posted on 08/14/2017 8:51:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ISLAMABAD: Currently, due to anthropogenic activities, the pace of climate change is high compared to changes in the past. It is essential, therefore, to find ways to mitigate drastic impacts of the ongoing climate change wave through adaptation and prevention without compromising development targets.
Climate change is becoming a challenge for many countries as the frequencies of weather anomalies and climatic extremes have increased during the last two decades.
At the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) under UNFCCC, the developed countries agreed to pay at least $100 billion every year to the developing countries as a climate adaptation fund till 2020.
Pakistan needs to get access to international financial resources to meet the adaptation and mitigation costs.
Pakistan is ranked number 7 in the list of most vulnerable countries, suffering economic losses of $3.823 billion in the last two decades due to climate change and climate extremes.
At the 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Federal Minister for Climate Change Zahid Hamid said: “We emit less than 1% of total annual global greenhouse gases, yet we are ranked amongst top 10 countries most vulnerable to climate change. Millions of people are affected and colossal damage is caused on a recurring basis.”
According to UNDP’s Climate Public Expenditures and Institutional Review 2015 for next 40 years, Pakistan would require $10.70 billion per annum as the cost of adaptation to climate change and mitigation cost would range from $8 billion to $17 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at tribune.com.pk ...
Where the hell are they pulling these “loss” numbers from.
“Millions of people are affected and colossal damage is caused on a recurring basis.”
What is this colossal damage of which you speak???
Doesn’t this just about peg the old BS meter?
That's worse than obscene. That's treason. Money directly into the pockets of our enemies.
From Carter to O'Dummy, with Reagan as the sole exception, our presidents have been abysmally stupid.
me too! me too!
From what I have seen in my 64 years, never trust Pakistan.
Ever.
That is all I know.
Go ask the Chinese; they have the most money and do the most polluting. Or you can ask your neighbors the Indians. They pollute a lot too. I’m sure they’d love to send the Pakis a couple billion.
Or not.
Ludicrous. There’s some comments that were worth reading at the end of the article in the source.
Aside, I spent some time browsing through the publication. There, coordinated forces work to reinforce the awful consequences of trashing your own country while pretending it’s all good. It’s an account of ironically, the Muslim religious test for crossing the Paki border, which is the sanctum of civility, bounty and joy, away from starvation, thirst, and raging Hindus.
Gotta go shower now.
http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/54938/i-could-smell-it-i-could-breathe-it-pakistan-was-near/
What absolute BS. pakistan is full of moozlum extremists who need nothing other than to suffer in their crappy country.
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