ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has planned to host a series of conferences across the country to seek new ideas from Pakistani university graduates to confront climate change concerns.
As per HEC, Pakistan is facing major challenges related to climate change at the national level. These challenges include power generation, power distribution, renewable energy, waste dumping and collection locations, water treatment, waste segregation, and the increasing demands of a growing populace.
The serious implications of these problems highlight how urgent it is to work together to manage liquid and solid waste, secure energy, water, ecotourism, agriculture, and forestry, as well as to assure sustainability for both the present and the future generations.
The Higher Education Commission has also started Green Youth Movement (GYM) clubs in 137 public sector universities in response to these issues. These groups are actively engaged in a variety of initiatives pertaining to climate action research and awareness.
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In this context, a series of conferences on renewable energy, agriculture and forestry, eco-tourism, water conversation, and liquid and solid waste management have been organized by HEC in partnership with the Prime Minister’s Youth Program under the initiative “Green Youth Movement.”
By the end of January 2024, the second conference on liquid and solid waste management is slated to take place in Karachi, while the first conference on renewable energy is planned to take place in Lahore.
For both conferences, a request for original, imaginative, and feasible ideas has been released. Applications for the conference are open to university students and graduates of any Pakistani university between the ages of 18 and 29. The deadline for submitting ideas is January 14, 2024.
Irfan Ullah, the director of the Green Youth Movement Project, told APP that young people in Pakistan have a great deal of potential for addressing climate change through creative project development.
Young people have a fantastic opportunity to present their creative ideas for renewable energy and liquid and solid waste management through HEC, Green Youth Movement.
