phfadminISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul Monday said the crop stubble burning was continuing in Punjab despite smog as no authority had been monitoring the situation.
“I recently traveled on the motorway from Dera Ghazi Khan to Islamabad where the stubble burning is going on without any restriction,” she said addressing the Climate Change Adaptation Conference.
The conference titled Climate Resilience- Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) was organized by Pakistan Humanitarian Network (PHF).
Gul said the prior regimes made pathetic overlapping of institutions that hampered their efficacy and capacity to cope with a multi-dimensional issue like smog.
“Smog is not a one-day phenomenon rather it developed over a period of time,” she said regretting that there was weak coordination among the academia, experts, and farmers who were directly affected due to climate change.
“We are an over-polluted, populated, and urbanized country where we have to tackle climate change within the available limited resources with increased population,” said Gul.
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