Grow Trees To Get Oxygen, Fight Climate Change: Deputy Commissioner Multan
MULTAN, (Muzaffargarh.City – 5th Sep, 2018 ) :Deputy Commissioner Mudassir Riaz Malik and USAID-Punjab Youth Workforce Development (PYWD) project officials jointly inaugurated a tree plantation campaign on Wednesday at Qasim Fort to complement district administration’s commitment to plant 200,000 trees in Multan to improve environment.
Mudassir Riaz Malik, who attended the ceremony as chief guest, said that trees produce oxygen free for the mankind adding that it would cost a whopping 38 trillion Dollars if we try to produce oxygen for the whole world for only six months.
He said that target of planting 10 billion trees in five years, set by the government, can only be achieved by combined efforts at the national level and people from all age groups and vocations would have to contribute.
The DC described climate change as a serious challenge saying Pakistan was among the top seven countries to be affected by the phenomenon. Moreover, rise in temperature and subsequent rise in sea water level may cause many island to disappear.
He underlined the need for bringing factories under stricter regulations and checking carbon emissions more efficiently in addition to planting trees to check environmental degradation.
USAID-PYWD project’s chief of party Qaisar Nadeem said: “We are committed to augment efforts of Multan district government as well as other districts including Lodhran, Bahawalpur, Muzaffargarh in tree plantation campaign by donating them 40,000 saplings and organizing public awareness sessions.” Pakistan is facing multi-faceted environmental issues including deforestation, air pollution, climate change, pesticides misuse, soil erosion, natural disaster and desertification, Qaisar Nadeem said adding these are getting worse as the country’s economy expands and population grows.
USAID-PYWD’s skill-based training are transforming livelihood of 10,000 youth, 35 per cent of them women, in Multan, Bahawalpur, Muzaffargarh and Lodhran, he said.