KARACHI: Renowned urban planner and Executive Director of Sustainable Initiatives Farhan Anwar has said that climate change is a global fact and Pakistan is one of the worst hit countries to climate change and in order to reduce the impacts of changing climate as part of adaptation, Pakistan needs more green cities.

Delivering a detailed presentation on climate change to a workshop for journalists organized by Individualland Pakistan at hotel Embassy Inn, Karachi on Wednesday, he said that reduction of fossil fuels, introducing urban transportation and massive forest plantation can help reducing the impacts of changing climate. “But also we need to think about the extreme weather event like recent Karachi heat wave and continuous floods in the country for past many years,” he told the participants.

During the workshop in organized collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Stifftung (FNSt) as a ‘Day Training & Orientation’ large number of journalists including Daily Sindh editor Jaffar Memon, Monthly Farozaan Mehmood Alam Khalid, Office bearer of Larkana Press Club, Murtaza Kalhoro, senior journalist Sami Memon, Hafeez Magsi, Zulfiqar Kunbhar, Maria Memon, Mujahid Shah, Rashid Ali and other attend the workshop.

“Climate change is occurring very rapidly in the world. The snow on the mountains is melting and it’s becoming hotter day by day, which is very alarming and the whole world should pay attention on this issue” Anwar added.

Delivering presentation Sundas Syeda, Research Officer, Individualland, said that the climate change is occurring so rapidly that one minute it is hot and suddenly it starts to rain heavily due to which the weather becomes quite cold. “An example of this is the current floods in the province of Punjab due to which thousands of people have become homeless,” she said.