STAFF REPORT BHURBAN: Ship recycling activities at Gadani shipbreaking yard are environmentally-damaging and unsustainable” and causing degradation of marine and coastal ecosystems in the country; this is stated by experts and government representative while speaking at the workshop “Hazardous Waste Assessment for the Environmentally-Sound Management of Waste from Ship recycling in the Pakistan”, organized by Ministry of Climate Change.


They likewise underlined the requirement for deliberate arrangement measures to shield Pakistans marine and coastal biological communities from further disturbance by guaranteeing that ship-reusing exercises are done in a scientific and environment-friendly way. “We should understand that the environmentally-sound management of waste from the ship breaking exercises is unavoidable to battle raising coastal and marine pollution and the dangers these have postured to the supportability of the coastal and marine ecologies,”


Addressing the workshop participants, Muhammad Ashraf Additional Secretary Ministry of Science and Technology called attention to that there additionally existed a squeezing requirement for setting guidelines and pounding out controls in consultation with every pertinent partner for taking care of waste from the ship breaking activities in a way that brought on no more harm to the marine and coastal ecologies.


“India and Bangladesh have possessed the capacity to lead ship-disassembling activities in a scientific and environmental-friendly way. Absence of specialized and scientific mastery is a noteworthy reason for the terrible condition of ship recycling in the region,” said by Ms. Susan Wingfield, program officer at the Geneva-based Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. She educated the members of the policy workshop that these countries, Pakistan included, were in effect completely bolstered by the applicable United Nations organizations to shield their marine and coastal ecologies from environmental degradation being brought on by shipbreaking activities.


Iftikhar-ul-Hassan Shah Gilani, Joint Secretary Climate Change Ministry, said that lack of concern in such manner was no alternative and encouraged all important government and non-government partners to join the governments endeavors to address heightening marine pollution, which has severely disintegrated the countries marine environment. He further added, “Pakistan is a signatory to various international conventions and protocols on different environmental issues, particularly hazardous chemicals and squanders, including Basel, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Vienna and Montreal Protocols.


“In the light of these traditions and Protocols, the Ministry of Climate Change has officially taken different strategy measures for the protection and preservation of environment and characteristic assets. These approach measures have been commended internationally,” he commented.


Dr. Zaigham Abbas, Deputy Director (Chemical), Ministry of Climate Change informed with respect to the objectives of the arrangement workshop. He highlighted that the Ministry of Climate Change is trying hard and fast endeavors to accomplish the objectives of the environment friendly sound management of hazardous waste, as required by the Hong Kong Convention and the Basel Convention.


The workshop was attended by delegates of the important federal and provincial government departments, representatives of Pakistan Ship Breakers Association, environmentalists, policy and strategy specialists, analysts, academicians and researchers, who clarified the seriousness of the threats to the marine nature frameworks.

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