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Rapid deforestation puts Pakistan s climate policies in jeopardy ANI | Updated: Jun 09, 2021 18:24 IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 9 (ANI): Pakistan remains largely prone to challenges that have thwarted its efforts to create a climate-friendly government. Of all the challenges, rapid deforestation remains one of the gravest issues faced by the country even today.
Ayaz Khan for Asia Times writes that Pakistan has suffered a significant loss to climate change in two decades from 1998 to 2018, where 9,986 people lost their lives and USD 3.8 billion was reported in economic losses. Pakistan loses 27,000 hectares of natural forest area annually.
Since 1947, Pakistan s total forest cover has dropped from 33 per cent to 5 per cent and tree cover in the country was a mere 0.74 per cent of total land area in 2010. In 2020, Pakistan lost 69.2 hectares of tree cover, equal to 19.6 kilotons of carbon dioxide emissions.
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Information minister assured a delegation of newspaper editors that an authority to regulate media would be set up only after taking input from all stakeholders