A-8: Negotiating the Climate Amid COVID-19
- In the age of adaptation, climate cannot just be about managing carbon, it needs to be at the centre of all development and all humanitarian conversations. Countries, even the developing economies, need to stop just being cheerleaders for global negotiations and start demanding serious interventions because the impacts of climate change are becoming catastrophically bad now.
- Climate change cannot be effectively addressed without climate justice and development at the centre of the conversation.
- It is vital to address climate change on a global scale. This is the greatest challenge facing humanity, and individual countries will not be able to address the crisis alone.
- Climate change can be addressed, but only if humanity acts now and governments make solutions and renewable energy equitable and accessible to all.
- The discussion around climate change needs to shift away from carbon management to human development.
- While countries around the world should reduce their carbon footprint, policies and strategies should be formed with climate change in mind so it doesn’t become a humanitarian crisis.
- The humanitarian, development, and climate challenges created by rising global temperatures, clear water shortages, crumbling infrastructure, and extreme weather events are encompassing of one single challenge that should be tackled together with a global perspective.
- Pakistan is on the right path by restricting coal power production. The country needs to shift its national energy mix to domestic clean resources by investing more in renewable energy generation, including hydropower and solar. This will help strengthen energy sector institutions to better manage a growing portfolio of renewable energy projects across the country.
- By adding drought, floods and other climate impacts or consequences into the national agenda, Pakistan can meet its developmental dividends. Moreover, a lot of adaptation polices need to be water-related.
- Pakistan should also focus on indigenous production of renewable energy materials and products to reduce the cost of renewable energy production.
