Speakers at seminar on Saturday called for taking effective measures to mitigate hazardous effects of global warming and to create environment-friendly Pakistan.
A day-long seminar was arranged by the Institution of Engineers, Pakistan Rawalpindi-Islamabad Center (IEP-RI), in collaboration with City University of Science and Information Technology (CUSII) and Pakistan Institute of ICTS for Development (PIID).
Pakistan Environment Agency Director General Ms Farzana Altaf Shah was the chief guest on the occasion who urged the people to change their life-style that helps to make environment clean and safe, for ensuring a better future of future generation.
The speakers included Hafiz Ehan-ul-Haq Qazi, Chairman IEP-RI, Dr Attaullah Shah, Vice Chancellor City University, Peshawar and Ammar Jaffri Director General Center of Information Technology (CIT). The seminar was largely attended by the young engineers and the members of IEP.
The speakers called for proper use of ICT, like Internet and social media to create awareness at the gross-root level about the effects of global warming. In this connection, they underlined role of the government’s agencies, NGOs and the universities.
Resource person Ammar Jaffari gave a detailed presentation on ‘ICTs for climate change-disaster and risk management’. He warned that the climate change was going to affect every person in the country, particularly the poor segment of the society. The nation he emphasized must prepare itself to reduce its negative impact to ensure a safer future.
Dr Attaullah Shah, Vice Chancellor City University, in his presentation said the climate change was an emerging threat to Pakistan. Around two hundreds glaciers have started melting and how to protect the people from its dangerous effects was a big challenge today.
He hoped that seminar will be an ice-breaking to prepare the nation for timely taking preventive measures to face the risk of global warming.
Hafiz Ehsan-ul-Haq Qazi also spoke on the issue of climate-change and mitigation of global warming. He highlighted the objectives of IEP, stating that they have focused on updating technical and general knowledge of persons, engaged in engineering and to provide them coaching facility through internship, scholarships, rewards and grant of certification of competency.