Ms. Shazia Rafi, AQA President & Convenor and Hon. Sherry Rahman, Federal Minister of Climate Change of Pakistan addressed the IPU Third Regional Seminar for the Asia-Pacific Region Parliaments on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Host: Inter-Parliamentary Union and the National Assembly of Pakistan
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan
Ms. Shazia Rafi, AQA President & Convenor gave a presentation on “Air Pollution links to Climate Change, Debt for Climate Swaps, transitioning to green economies” at the Third Regional Seminar for the Asia Pacific Region Parliaments.
Hon. Sherry Rehman, Federal Minister of Climate Change, addressing a session on “Building Resilience to Preserve our Common Future” moderated by Chairman Senate’s Defense Committee Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, stressed the need to build climate resilience by stating that “as far as climate resilience is concerned, SDG 13 is of particular interest and gravity as building climate resilience is key for Pakistan, situated on the path of changing weather systems driven by climate stress.”
Hon. Rehman urged the countries in the Global North to realise their pledges to finance resilience and adaptation for the countries facing the brunt of global warming by decades of wealth creation, based on fossil fuel development.
The meeting addressed themes such as building resilience to preserve our common future in our increasingly interconnected world, and risks and impacts that are transferred across nations and around the globe.
Disasters are complex, interdependent events and their rising social and economic impacts require a fundamental shift in how disaster risks are managed to protect economic and development gains and achieve the SDGs.
Climate change is increasing the frequency and complexity of natural hazard events. There is a link between habitat loss, environmental degradation and climate change on the one hand, and the emergence of novel zoonotic diseases that are transmitted between animals and humans, such as coronaviruses, on the other. This link calls for a sound environmental response to the pandemic. This session explored explore approaches to build resilience by reducing disaster risks and promoting a sustainable recovery from COVID-19.
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