Pakistan: 'Bad governance has accentuated the environment crisis' - Interview

Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, the head of the NGO, Leadership in Environment and Development-Pakistan based in Islamabad and a member of the government's Advisory Group on Climate Change, describes in this interview with Rina Saeed Khan for the Friday Times how poor governance has exacerbated the problems caused by climate change given the two years of continuous monsoon flooding that have hit Pakistan.

"There has been no climate compatible development. Bad governance has accentuated the crisis," Ali Tauqeer Sheikh says. "These kinds of floods will continue to cost us unless we have disaster preparedness infrastructure in place," He continues. "We have to look at a different way of allocating resources to withstand floods and other disasters. We have to initiate a process, which over the years can help us to better deal with climate related disasters."