Holistic approach to tackling climate change is needed: PM

Pakistan is used to coping with heavy monsoon rains, but 2020 was unexpectedly intense: PM Imran

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan, while sharing the link of his article published in British’s daily national newspaper ‘The Times’, stated that a holistic approach to tackling climate change is needed including financial commitments. The PM, in his article ‘COP26 will end in failure without a finance deal’, mentioned, “Monsoon season in Pakistan is time of hope and fear. Hope because the rains irrigate our farmlands and refresh our cities after the intense summer heat. Fear that the rains will overwhelm us, bursting river banks and unleashing urban flash floods.” Last summer Pakistan experienced the heaviest rains in a century, with an unprecedented cloudburst leaving much of the sprawling metropolis of Karachi inundated, rendering thousands homeless and over a hundred dead, he stated. Imran Khan wrote, “Pakistan is used to coping with heavy monsoon rains, but 2020 was unexpectedly intense, and scientists tell us this will become increasingly common as our planet warms.”