Senator Mushahid Hussain highlights Pakistan’s role in combating climate during speech at COP26, Glasgow

Senator Mushahid Hussain’s speech at Glasgow COP26: Addressing the COP26 Conference here, Chairman Senate Defence Committee and member Senate Climate Change Committee, Senator Mushahid Hussain made some Key points. He said that Pakistan one of most vulnerable countries on Climate Change, suffered major freak weather incidents like floods, forest fires & avalanches, and he referred to the fact that 10 years ago, 20% of Pakistan was under water due to floods in Sind & KP, and the 2012 Gyari avalanche martyred 150 soldiers & civilians at the Siachen Glacier, 12,000 feet above sea level. Senator Mushahid Hussain said as Chairman of Defence Committee he had worked to redefine the concept of National Security, which was traditionally based on only military might, and which is now redefined to focus on Human Security, protecting lives and livelihoods of people, giving priority to Health, pandemics, population planning, education and Climate Change & Environment. During his speech at COP26 at Glasgow, Senator Mushahid Hussain proposed that all global initiatives for connectivity like China’s BRI, the United States’s B3W & the European Union’s Global Gateway, allocate special funding for climate mitigation projects amongst the most vulnerable Climate Change affected countries like Pakistan, which would help in effectively meeting the challenge of Climate Change, which is one of the biggest non-traditional security threats facing humanity and which requires a collective response to meet this common challenge, above partisan politics.