Regional cooperation for water governance, time for South Asia to sign the ESPOO

Regional cooperation for water governance, time for South Asia to sign the ESPOO

Islamabad (December 15), on the concluding day of this year’s Sustainable Development Conference by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in the session on ‘Regional cooperation for water governance, it was highlighted by
the experts that all South Asian countries immediately should sign the ESPOO convention. They said Siachen glaciers should immediately be declared as peace-park without any conditions or prerequisites and particularly without any ground demarcating on the
ice. 

Syed Imtiaz Gillani, VC UET, Peshawar concluded there is an instant need to execute the decisions of the International Court of Justice regarding implementation of trans-boundary impact assessment. They said there is an immediate
need to rehabilitate degraded watershed in Kashmir for sustainable flow in the rivers so that paradigms of sustainable development in South Asia can be redefined and added our future is dependent on this and India has to open Indian-held Kashmir for Pakistanis
to strengthen the peoples-to-peoples contact.

In the session on ‘Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation plus (REDD), Ahmad Hussain of Planning and Development Division, Islamabad, emphasized there exists an enormous opportunities to manage natural and
productive forests following the precepts of this new mechanism of REDD which has global significance in terms of climate change debate as it is a cost effective mitigation measure. 

Dr. Muhammad Afzal, Director of Punjab Forestry Research Institute, Faisalabad highlighted the need for a national level carbon databank of all forests which will help foresters and policy makers in enhancing the carbon stock through
sustainable management of forest in the context of climate change. Mehwish Ali of Institute of NUST emphasized on the importance of carbon sequestration as an effective means for alleviating the effects of greenhouse gas emission in the atmosphere and recommended
remote sensing method is an effective and reliable approach for carbon stock estimation in forest. Eak. B. Rana of ICIMOD, Nepal urged benefits for poor in such a process.

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