The policy, launched by the Ministry of Climate Change, provides a framework for coping with the threats of climate change through adaptation and mitigation actions and includes measures such as flood forecasting warning systems, explains Waqas Naeem in a column for the Express Tribune. "The goal is to ensure that climate change is mainstreamed in the economically and socially vulnerable sectors of the economy and to steer Pakistan towards climate resilient development," said Javaid Ali Khan, director-general of climate change and environment at the ministry.
The implementation plan is being prepared by policy implementation committees and a national climate change fund will also be formed and will include financing from the international Green Climate Fund. It requires collaboration and cooperation between the private and public sectors, asserted Mujtaba Hussain, deputy secretary of the ministry. Marc-André Franche, country director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), stressed for the government to take action as the resources and implementation challenges will require serious political will at the highest level of government.