In his opinion column for the Daily Times, Dr Abdur Rehman Cheema, states that governments are being neglectful of the issue of adaptation to climate change. He argues that expert knowledge of disaster management and climate needs to be simplified so that ordinary citizens can make sense of it and question the government for failing to act.
"Although climate change is occurring due to a larger share of development sins of the developed world, we happen to be at the paying end. Developing countries like Pakistan cannot influence the actions of developed countries to reduce carbon emissions. Our main option is actually the only option and that is adaptation to prevent or mitigate the negative effects of rising temperature and resulting extreme events. Climate smart developments such as developing extreme weather tolerant varieties of crops, land use planning, adopting climate resilient housing (energy efficient and having ability to withstand adverse weather conditions) and effectively building disaster risk management in our planning process to keep us out of harm’s way are some of the policy options we need to follow."