ISLAMABAD: The experts at the commencement of the first-ever international training seminar on solar radiation management (SRM) demanded the country along with the member states of the Global South (developing countries) to come up with robust regulatory framework and capacity buildup to tackle the looming SRM regime to avert any hostile impacts of the emerging technology.
The COMSATS University Islamabad (CUI) and the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering (DSG) convened the first training seminar on the evolving science intended to bulwark rising global warming and climate change, titled “Living with Climate Change: Awareness and Training on SRM” under the aim to extend context of the new climate science and its governance challenge ahead among the policymakers, academia, civil society and media.
In his introductory remarks, the Head of the Centre for Climate Research and Development (CCRD), CUI, Prof Dr Athar Hussain briefed the participants about the urgency of the subject and its countering measures to enable the country with the most modern knowledge on SRM for better governance of the new technology. In his opening remarks, Prof Dr Shamsul Qamar from CUI said that the SRM was developing science that was intricate and multifaceted in nature that could have serious implications on the developing countries facing the maximum burden of climate change. However, it was incumbent upon the developing countries to explore solar engineering and develop their capacities related to the subject that would enable them to participate in the decision-making process to take place on solar engineering and its governance.
Director, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF-Pakistan), Imran Saqib Khalid said the fossil fuel-based economy was the elephant in the room driving the climate crisis and global warming whereas its phase-out was the key to cut carbon emissions and limit rising global average temperatures causing climate catastrophes. –Agencies
