Pakistan ought to consider for the long term for the purpose of environmental sustainability, most of the actions it could take to manage and reverse environmental degradation and adapt to global warming would have instant benefits and be especially useful to the poorest , who are most vulnerable.
Last year, the federal government introduced the Clean Green Pakistan Programme. This is a first outstanding step.Since it is a people’s movement and everyone’s duty, and targets behavioural change to build interest in better environmental services.
Pakistan can improve its environmental protection departments’ capacity to disclose environment information and activate citizens in environmental management via awareness campaigns on pollution and green development, as part of the Clean Green Pakistan initiative.
Pakistan has a chance to improve the devolution with environmental decentralisation, distinguishing between and revising federal, provincial, and local roles and tasks, which policy actions have to be taken by whom and how to organize it all, given boundary and efficiency problems.
It also require a better financing regime for industries and small and medium enterprises. This is a chance to develop green financing that makes access easier for environmentally responsible enterprises/activities.
