Lahore university V-C delivers lecture at CRRID

Dr Nijam,considered one of the leading authority on international environment and development policy, said every issue of development was linked with climate change. “Next July will be the hottest,” he remarked.

“If we look at the earth from space,we will realize our world as a planet,is a third world country. It does seem poor,divided,degraded,insecure,poorly governed and unsafe,but we need to understand this larger perspective,” he said.

He also talked about South Asia’s challenges in the age of development and emphasized that the countries need to deal with the climate issues together.

While talking about the nature of ‘globalness’ in the globalised world,he said,“Around 4,26,000 cell phones retire every year in United States and these cell phones are then sent to different countries. This is how the global train moves.”

According to Dr Nijam climate change is inevitable and imminent. “Human impact in South Asia will be severe and the countries need to deal with it together.”

The lecture was attended by experts,officials from the Punjab government and faculty members from Panjab University and other colleges.