ISLAMABAD: Dr. Arif Alvi, Pakistan’s president, said that Pakistan would have to adopt modern agricultural technology and make good decisions in order to deal with the challenge of climate change because of the country’s abundance of natural resources. In his inaugural address to the Regional Dialogue 2024 on “Climate Crisis,” the president Molding South Asia’s Strength” organized by the Establishment of Provincial Examinations, said that Pakistan was wealthy in water, environmentally friendly power potential and different assets yet it critically required a main thrust to execute the choices and cause it to contend with the world. He told the group of former diplomats, academics, and researchers that Pakistan had approximately 150 million acre-feet of water, which was enough to meet its needs if modern farming methods like spray and drip irrigation were used instead of flood irrigation. He said that a pricing mechanism could also lead to water conservation, highlighting the implementation of the national water policy and other relevant legislation. He claimed that sewerage was a criminal activity that resulted in the dumping of approximately 400 million gallons of water into the sea each day in Karachi. He also emphasized the fishermen’s use of illegal nets, which also swept small fish and led to a significant loss of marine life. He expressed due to the very reasons, Europe was not permitting fish import from Pakistan. The president exemplified the Netherlands which was the second biggest food provider on earth in spite of being multiple times more modest in size than Pakistan and not having such an overflow of water like Pakistan. Likewise, Vietnam has taken its fishery products to around $10 billion for each annum by embracing worldwide guidelines and methods, he added. He said by pushing the ranchers to embrace present day farming innovation, Pakistan could likewise take care of the world. He reviewed Pakistan’s triumphs in battling Coronavirus through an information based approach and public solidarity and said that the world would follow its impressions assuming the nation set such a model as it had likewise accomplished acknowledgment through monstrous tree ranch. He said the energy the sun gave to the earth consistently was ordinarily higher than the world’s yearly creation. The president commended the job of research organizations in doing explore works yet asked them to showcase their items to make the policymaker benefit from them. He said that innovation was accomplishing exceptional advancement while human scholarly power was on the downfall. The world was being controlled by personal stakes, making compassion the greatest casualty, he added. Prior, the IRS President Minister Nadeem Riaz in his basic comments, said the Provincial Discourse was the yearly lead occasion of the Institue which pulled in representatives, policymakers, specialists, tacticians and academicians from Pakistan and abroad. Laid out in 1982, the IRS was centered around provincial nations including India, China, Iran, Afghanistan, and South Asia, network safety and different difficulties. The Organization had 42 public and worldwide coordinated efforts and has been giving knowledge to policymakers and planners through its examination work, he added. He said South Asia was the most weak district the environmental change dangers which presented dangers to its biological system, food security and energy.
