No climate strategy can succeed without involvement of youth: Sherry

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ISLAMABAD: Chairperson Senate Standing Committee for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Senator Sherry Rehman issued a strong call for the Progressive Climate Foundation (PCF) Climate Youth Summit 2025, in which the youth of Pakistan added to the world of a world of “world.” Yes.

Addressing a gathering of youth leaders, climate experts, educationists, and civil society partners on Wednesday, Senator Sherry Rehman emphasized the urgent need for the climate crisis. “This is a life-changing emergency, and the message is immediately. The house is on fire. And if we do not work together-we will start with young people-so it will burn everything we love.”

With a population of 65 PCs in Pakistan under the age of 30, Senator Sherry Rehman emphasized that no climate strategy can be successful without its youth. According to a UNICEF 2021 report, young Pakistanis cannot explain the 73 PC of Pakistanis what climate change is. This is the highest rate in South Asia. 83 PC wants to work, but there is a lack of institutional help, and 16 PC has never studied climate change in school. Senator Rehman described it as a dangerous knowledge.

Highlighting the devastating effects of climate malfunction in Pakistan, Sherry emphasized that Pakistan recorded 53 ° C in three different cities in the last three years, and in April 2025 alone, the temperature has increased to 50 ° C in parts of Sindh and Balochistan. The senator also noted that 128,000 Pakistanis were killed by annual air pollution, while two million children were affected by climate -affected disasters, which has lost more than 54pc school days of the academic year. “Every province in Pakistan is now the front of the climate. From the cheeks of the north to the lands in Balochistan, the shortage of water in the Sindh Delta is not a ideological debate. Preach you.

Highlighting the hopeful measures, Sherry Rehman praised the Sindh People’s Housing for Flood victims (SPHF), under which 800,000 of the two million houses planned are reserved for women, which gives them accommodation of ground rights and climate. It also cited the Delta Blue Carbon (DBC) mangrove restoration project, providing 6,000 women with sustainable natural resources management training. “These are the stories of flexibility, where 72 PC women in Pakistan spend up to nine hours a day to collect water in rural Pakistan.

The Senator also addressed the plastic pollution as a systematic threat, which revealed that only 9 pc plastic globally has been recycled and only 1 PC has been recycled in Pakistan, and the rest “chemicals – microplastics, nanoplastics, are not only a healthy problem. Institutions have banned plastic bottles and are reducing the use of plastic in government meetings.

Regarding climate diplomacy, Senator Rehman emphasized the growing regional tension: “We are unable to engage in climate diplomacy due to war by India, though we should have talked about cooperation.

Senator Sherry Rehman concluded with a call for an action: “Young Pakistanis should become the caretaker of the global term. You are an agent of change. If you protect the planet, it will come back.