impacts of climate change

Federal Minister for Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, on Wednesday stressed on collaborative efforts to deal with multifaceted impacts of climate change and urged investors to invest in climate resilient development projects.

She was addressing inaugural session of 6th edition of ‘The Future Summit’ held here under the theme of ‘Prepare for Disruption’ for discussing challenges being faced by Pakistan and deliberates upon the future footprint and required readiness to deal with them.

The 2-day summit was being jointly organised by Nutshell Conferences Group and Engro Corporation in collaboration with Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OICCI) and Habib Bank while a large number of business delegates from Pakistan and abroad, as well as the Pakistani diasporas from all over the world is taking part in the moot.

Sherry Rehman highlighted that Pakistan was facing multifaceted issues like terrorism on borders, economic challenges and above all serious implications of climate change and multi-pronged strategies besides investment of billions of dollars were required to deal with the situation.

She termed record breaking rains and floods as a wake up call from nature which affected millions of people and a vast area of the country and said that nothing was going back to be normal as it was not a business as usual.