This is with reference to US Ambassador Cameron Munter’s article in your newspaper.
LONDON: This is with reference to US Ambassador Cameron Munter’s article in your newspaper of December 3 titled “Partners in meeting the challenge of climate change”.
By all accounts the Copenhagen Accord was toothless and well below everyone’s expectations, while the Cancun Summit has raised hopes, but is likely to fail. A country like Pakistan is going to bear the brunt of climate change. While efforts and support of other countries such as the US should be welcome, there is much that we need to do in behavioural changes today, to protect our interests.
For example, banning cutting our forests and holding accountable the so-called ‘timber mafia’. It has now been proved that massive deforestation, caused by logging, in the country’s north contributed to the intensity of the recent floods, yet there seems to be little by way of follow-up on this by the government or civil society.
Syed Nadir El-Edroos
Published in The Express Tribune, December 4th, 2010.
