Bonn of contention

22 November, 2017

by Hon. Malik Muhammad Uzair Khan, The News, 22 November 2017

I recently attended COP 23, the UN Climate Change Summit, along with 33,000 dignitaries, environmentalists, development workers, businessmen, scientists and activists. The summit was hosted in Bonn this year and was presided by the island of Fiji.

Passionate about environmental issues and as the recently-appointed chair of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Climate Change, my goal has been to create awareness regarding the urgency of this issue. Climate change discussions need to be mainstreamed within our debates on development and security. Arguably, this is Pakistan’s most important national security challenge and must be accorded top priority and budgetary allocations. Events like COP23 are integral in determining global cooperation and finance to enable countries to tackle this challenge. Read more