CPEC & Climate Change – Pakistan Towards a Climate Compatible Paradigm

Dr. Saleem Janjua, Ms. Numra Asif

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A roundtable conference was hosted by Urban Development Division of Centre of Excellence -China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CoE-CPEC) with the title of “CPEC & Climate Change-Pakistan Towards a Climate Compatible Paradigm”, organized by Dr. Saleem Janjua, Head of Policy and his team members on Dec 20th, 2017. The roundtable conference (RTC) was a side event of the International Science – Policy Conference on Climate Change in Pakistan, which was arranged in collaboration with the Global Change Impact Studies Center (GCISC), Ministry of Climate Change, Islamabad. Researchers, climate change experts, policy makers, implementers, practitioners and scholars participated in the RTC. Some of the distinguished guests were as under:

  • Tariq Banuri (Executive Director, Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC)
  • Shahid Rashid (Executive Director, CoE-CPEC)
  • Saleem Janjua (Head of Policy, Urban Development Division, CoE-CPEC)
  • Fauzia Bilqis Malik (Manager Islamabad Programme Office, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Pakistan)
  • Syed Ahmad Ali Shah (Director CESTaC, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi)
  • Mazharul Alam (Regional Coordinator Climate Change, UNEP-Bangkok)

The key objective of the round-table was to assess the current state of knowledge on the subject, identify data and research gaps, and provide guidance for future policy research on climate related threats to the ongoing and planned CPEC developments in Pakistan. The RTC was structured in the form of an open discussion amongst selected policy makers and experts, including international experts. The key points of the discussion are summarized as follows …

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