By APP,
Beijing : A senior UN official said Pakistan and India need to exploit their rich existing potential tackling the impact on climate changing for environment protection.
“This may be their important contribution towards regional and global efforts for environment protection,” the Chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri said. Pachauri’s team had won the 2007 Nobel Prize for its contribution to climate change research.
In an interview with China Daily, the Chairman IPCC urged all the regional countries to increase investment in relevant research and technology, so that world could minimize green house gas emissions.
Deliberating on regional cooperation and the UN’s role on IPCC, he said the world body was playing its active role to achieve the desired result. “We are moving towards a low carbon future and those companies that come up with low-carbon solutions ahead of the others will benefit most’, Chairman IPCC said adding, “This cherished goal needs of common efforts”.
Business groups should focus not only on how to adapt climate change but also on immediate action to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Eulogizing China’s leading role on global warming last year, he noted that other regional countries including India plan to formulate its national policy framework on climate change in June this year.
Meanwhile, Khalid Malik, UN Resident Coordinator in China said that China had set clear targets for energy saving, the use of renewable energy and spelled out political commitments to achieve its goals.
“The major challenge China still faces is how to get the message down to the grassroots and turn it into every step of action,” Malik said at a discussion on climate change jointly sponsored by his organization and BFA.