Pakistan is Planting Trees to Combat Climate Change
The Ministry of Climate Change has set the target to increase the existing forest cover in the country from 5 per cent to 12 per cent to effectively tackle issues relating to global warming, said an official.
The ministry planted as many as 15.31 million saplings across the country till December 2017 under Green Pakistan Programme, the official said, adding that under the UN charter, there must be 12 per cent forest cover of the total area of the country, but Pakistan had only 5 per cent.
Sharing the steps taken by government to achieve the target , he said that about 707 million saplings had been planted in a period of five years from 2011 to 2016 in the four provinces, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan and the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas. He said that around 14.78 million saplings of different species were available in various nurseries for plantation under the programme.
