NANGARHAR (SW) – Nangarhar University is set to host an international meeting on Climate Change this week. The Ministry of Higher Education (MHE), in collaboration with the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), is organizing the event at Nangarhar University during the ongoing week.
Officials from the Ministry of Higher Education state that the meeting aims to highlight the scientific research findings of domestic and foreign university professors. The discussions will focus on the comprehensive effects of climate change on Afghanistan.
On Monday, Lotfullah Khairkhah, the Scientific Deputy Minister of the MHE, said in a press conference at the Government Information and Media Center that nearly 140 scientific research articles by domestic and foreign university professors will be presented on the effects of climate change in Afghanistan.
“We are facing a dangerous climate change in our country, an issue that changes the basis of life, agriculture, and residing places; and causes internal migrations. Unfortunately, this issue remains a ritual issue both in Afghanistan and in the world, no action has been done to solve it,” said Khairkhah.
He further emphasizes that one of the important aims of the meeting is Afghanistan’s demand to the world to compensate for the losses caused by climate change.
Kefayatullah Kakar, Deputy of the Nangarhar University’s scientific research journal, however, mentions that the results of one-year research by professors from domestic universities and eight countries around the world will be presented after the meeting. These findings aim to provide solutions to combat the effects of climate change to policy-making departments.
According to Kakar, the meeting is going to be held for three days. “Scientific delegations from China, Britain, Pakistan, India, Nigeria, Turkey, Malaysia and Thailand will also attend this meeting. At the end of the meeting, the ideas that are presented, the collection, and scientific results are shared with the policy-making departments.”
On the other hand, Abdulsalam Haqqani, Deputy Director of the National Environmental Protection Agency, emphasizes that climate change has had devastating effects on all aspects of human life in Afghanistan.
Officials from the NEPA say that, based on surveys conducted in 2020, Afghanistan requires 20 billion dollars to fully respond to the effects of climate change.
