Empowering Youth, Women Key to Climate Action

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Chitral: Experts at a seminar have urged the government to provide cheap electricity or gas as an alternative fuel to the people of Chitral and other mountainous areas to minimise the burden on forests and prevent losses in natural calamities.

People in Chitral often burn wood for cooking and warmth, thus putting a burden on forests and negatively impacting the environment.

Speaking at a seminar on ‘Youth for a Cooler Planet’ on Thursday,speakers and experts stressed the youth and women to play their important role in mitigating the negative effects of global warming and climate change, reducing damage from natural calamities, and planting as many trees as possible.

Social activist Nasreen Bibi urged women and children to protect the environment by planting trees and minimising the excessive use of wood as a fuel.

Chitral Press Club President Zaheer-ud-din Azim highlighted the impact of GLOF-II project in district Chitral which is aimed at installing protective walls, irrigation canals, community halls, and early warning systems in vulnerable areas.

Environmentalist Hamid Ahmad Mir presented the effects of climate change on the environment and the changes that have occurred globally due to it.

Experts noted that thousands of factories in the world’s wealthiest countries emit carbon dioxide and poisonous gases, affecting the climate of the whole world, especially in developing countries where there are very few factories.