Book highlighting impacts of glof & global warming on environment launched

 News Desk

A book highlighting impacts of pollution, glof & global warming on the environment and climate was launched at the Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA), Islamabad on Friday.

Renowned cartoonist and illustrator Nigar Nazar has authored this book. The author presented the potential environmental and climate related challenges in her book titled “My Tree Book”.

The launching ceremony was meant to enlighten youth and children about the negative impact of less tree environment on climate, resulting in global warming and importance of trees and forests in controlling the rising temperatures and glacier lake outburst flooding.

PNCA Director General Zahir Shah while speaking on the occasion said Nigar Nazar is the first Pakistani female cartoonist to present such an informative book with interactive style of description and illustration through cartoons which will definitely help and encourage the audience and public to overcome environmental issues.

 Ministry of Climate Change Additional Secretary Jaudat Ayaz while recalling his childhood memories of seeing Gogi on TV and newspapers told the audience that Gogi was a popular cartoon character in 1970s and 1980s, while going to school and college he eagerly used to see Gogi cartoons on TV and in newspapers.

Ayaz also appreciated the author for presenting some information on awareness on Golf issues in her “My Tree Book”. Glacial lake outburst flooding is a possible hazardous flood in northern areas of Pakistan leading to loss of lives, properties and livelihoods of the communities living in remote and impoverished areas of KP and Gilgit-Baltistan which can be handled through growing trees in areas besides taking other precautionary measures.

Minister of Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam highlighted the danger of pollution on environment through quoting an instance of piling up of plastic garbage equivalent to two mountains of K2 which he related with “kooray ka jin” authored by Nigar Nazar in 2002 when he was State Minister for the Ministry of Environment.

Amin Aslam applauded the consistent commitment of Nigar Nazar to create awareness on social and environmental issues through her comic and record books.

The book is especially emphasizing on the impact of pollution, Glof & global warming on environment and climate and presenting the ways out to cope up with these issues, he observed.

PNCA & Gogi Studios also presented “My Tree Book ” through a song “Aik Achai bhi Achi hai ”, a mime and cartoon show which was highly applauded by the guests and students.

Nigar Nazar while formally launching her book has eagerly and keenly 1 educated students through illustrations to clean the environment, not let the other children and elders throw garbage on public places, grow trees and enjoy a clean and cool environment.

She in her record book, “My Tree Book” has illustrated and described the importance of tree in keeping the environment clean, presented information on process of planting seeds and growing trees, functions of trees to purify water and pollutants, unique trees in the world and steps taken to cope with Glof through Glog II project which will install automatic weather stations, build structures and plant trees to avoid glacier flooding.

The event was organized by PNCA in collaboration with Gogi Studios and the Ministry of Climate Change.