NDMA participates at RCC forum in Thailand

NDMA Pakistan's delegation participated in the 18th meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) in Bangkok, Thailand on Thursday.

Regional Consultative Committee is a regional forum to promote consultation and cooperation in reducing disaster and climate change risk in Asia and the Pacific region.

The theme of this year's RCC meeting is "Sustainable Anticipatory Actions for Resilient Development Goals", which strongly resonates with NDMA Pakistan's proactive Disaster Risk management (DRM) approach to timely anticipate disasters through advance technologies and taking appropriate actions to reduce losses.

In his keynote speech, Chairman NDMA Lt. Gen Inam Haider Malik highlighted the impacts of climate change in the Asia-Pacific Region and in Pakistan, including rising temperatures, extreme weather, and water-related crises threatening socio-economic development progress in the region.

He stressed the need for developing appropriate financial mechanisms providing required financial resources to most affected countries in dealing with the impacts of climate change through DRR and CCA.