KABUL (SW): Officials at the National Environment Protection Agency of Afghanistan (NEPAA) has said that the issue of climate change and increase in the temperature of earth is a global issue, which has also affected Afghanistan.
Ghulam Hussain Amiri, Head of Climate Change at NEPAA said that carbon emission in Afghanistan does not reach even half percent here but the alarming rate of emissions in the developed and developing countries have impacted climate in Afghanistan as well.
He added that repeated droughts, unexpected rains and back to back destructive floods in the recent years have been the result of climate change. He further said that the Afghan government would present a program titled (National Participation towards Climate Change) to industrial countries.
Based on this program, developed countries could assist Afghanistan by some $ 17 billion till 2030.
If the program is supported by the industrialized countries, within the next 15 years Afghanistan would also help reduce the global greenhouse gases emissions by 13 percent.
The program aims at three approaches for fighting and reducing greenhouse gases emissions, which are using the state of the art technology, water management and scientific cooperation by the industrial countries with Afghanistan.
The climate change is mainly because of excessive use of fossil fuel that include gas, oil and coal.
Officials at the NEPPA said that the use of fossil fuels in Afghanistan increases during winter season and this issue could be the reason why greenhouse gas emission increases in the country.
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