Mushahidullah wants UN to help countries to fight climate change

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan Thursday said United Nations must help developing countries in capacity building to fight climate change.

The minister said this while talking to Dr Shamshad Akhtar Detho, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, as the head of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in a meeting held at the Ministry of Climate Change, said a press release issued here.

He said UN is very pro active in dealing with wars and conflicts all around the world and as climate change is also a war therefore the UN should help developing countries to fight climate change.

The minister said that climate change impacts are affecting people all over the world. “The gas emission is due to industrial revolution that is caused by developed countries,” he said.

He further said these emissions are negatively impacting various sectors of human beings including agriculture, water scarcity, health, and livestock. “The under developed countries are most affected by climate change and do not have modern technology to combat climate change. So international communities must support to mitigate the effects of climate change.”

Dr Shamshad said that we need to understand the dimensions of problem. “We are ready to support Pakistan to fight climate change,” she said.

Shamshad is a Pakistani development economist, diplomat and intellectual who serves, as a Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, as the head of UNESCAP.

Prior to that, she also served as the 14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, the first woman to assume this position.

She also served as a senior adviser to Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon and the vice-President of the World Bank.