ISLAMABAD: President Dr. Arif Alvi has urged youth to actively participate in monsoon plantation drive to cope with challenge posed by climate. In his message on national monsoon plantation campaign, he stressed for plantation in residential and industrial areas as well as in markets and along roads. President Alvi said climate change and increasing temperatures are resulting in melting of glaciers and floods.

He said Pakistan is one of most vulnerable countries to climate change and it is faced with flood like situation every year. He said we will have to accelerate efforts to grow forests. He pointed out that Pakistan’s total forest cover is four point eight percent. According to the international standards forest cover area of any country should be about twenty five percent.  He said increasing forest cover will provide us effective protection against floods.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 19 2022

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