World Bank gives $3.8m to save forests

ISLAMABAD: The World Bank has provided funds amounting to $3.8 million to Pakistan under the REDD+ programme to help protect forests and control their shrinkage.

“We cannot protect the country from devastating impacts of global warming-induced climate change as long as our forests continue getting chopped down,” an official of the Ministry of Climate Change said on Wednesday.



“Forests are the best resource for achieving enhanced climate resilience against the fallout of adverse climate change,” the official added.

He listed lack of access to energy for cooking and heating in households, illegal tree-cutting, population growth and associated surge in wood demand, changes in land cover for non-forestry uses, land erosion and degradation as the major causes of deforestation in the country.



Published in The Express Tribune, August 17^th, 2017.

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