Pakistan: Awareness key to coping with climate change - Speakers

Save the Children presented the recommendations of a survey conducted earlier this month to assess the impacts of climate change on children and their families in the Indus Basin. According to the results of the survey, research, awareness campaigns and the integration of disaster risk reduction strategies in planning and development are essential to help Pakistan cope with future climate change challenges.

“Pakistan remains vulnerable to climate change and this vulnerability is likely to increasing in the coming decades,” said Chief Guest Brigadier Sajid Naeem, director of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), as reported by the Express Tribune. “We must all be prepared for a world which is changing.”