Pakistan’s Major Issues, Current Scenario and Future

Strategies

Lokhaze Ali Azhar Iqbal

Zunaira HabibHira Waheed

Waseem Jatoi

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Septimius Tertullianus, 200 B.C • One thing is sure - the earth is

now more cultivated and developed than ever before. There is more farming with pure force, swamps are drying up, and cities are springing up on unprecedented scale.

• We've become a burden to our planet. Resources are becoming scare, and soon nature will no longer be able to satisfy our needs. The time will ultimately come when pest, hunger, floods and war will diminish the excessive numbers of our human species.

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Global Population Evolution For thousands of years, the world population remained well below 500 million. Within the last 200 years the population grew at an enormous speed to over 7 billion.

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Pakistan’s Population

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Pakistan’s Population

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Top 10 Freshwater Consumers

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Current Scenario

• Earthquakes, Floods, Droughts• Huge volume of water wasted

during floods• Economical losses GDP

(Infrastructure, Livestock)• Food Security Issues

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World's Most Vulnerable Areas to Climate Change Mapped

• Sep. 16, 2013• Scientists from the Wildlife

Conservation Society, the University of Queensland, and Stanford University

• A roadmap that identifies the world's most vulnerable and least vulnerable areas in the Age of Climate Change

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The Future

• Vision The Alternative Futures (Multiple Futures)

• Emerging Trends of the World

• Your Strategies for the Multiple Futures

• A timeline to implement your strategies

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Innovative IdeasMilan’s Bosco Verticale

1. Milan is one of the most polluted cities in Europe

2. Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest)3. Metropolitan Reforestation4. Two residential towers of 110

and 76 meters height5. Host 900 trees (each measuring

3, 6 or 9 m tall)6. On flat land, each Bosco

Verticale equals, in amount of trees, an area equal to 10.000 sqm of forest.

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Number of climate refugees to touch 1 billion mark by 2050

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Host and Promote Local Food Brands

• With the excess of water that we lose every year in Floods

• Channel the Water• Make new earthen dams if we

cannot afford to make proper dams

• Increase agricultural yield• Promote Organic Food Market

Farmer’s Package just like Youth Package to promote Food Security

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Cater Global Food Market

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World Meteorological Organization• According to the World

Meteorological Organization, one dollar invested in disaster preparedness can prevent seven dollars’ worth of disaster-related economic losses.

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Disaster Management

Challenges to Decision Making • Where Uncomfortable

Officials • Meet in Unfamiliar

Surroundings• To Play Unaccustomed Roles• Making Unpopular Decisions• Based on Inadequate

Information• And in Much Too Little Time

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Follow China’s Strategy in Promoting Your Business

• China during Energy Crisis• Invested in manufacturing

Export Quality Solar Panels (as they could not afford to use them)

• Improved GDP • Now using those solar

panels for domestic and commercial use

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Early Warning Systems• Climate Investment Funds• Invest in Disaster Management

and Export Quality Early Warning Systems (Remote Sensing & GIS)

• Production and Usage

MétéoFrance Cartes de Vigilence for the heat wave Earthquake Tsunami Warning System

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Effective Warning Program• Behavioral Changes• Receive the warning• Understand the information presented • Believe the information • Personalize the information • Make correct decisions • Respond in a timely manner

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Typhoon Usagi headed for Philippines and Taiwan

• Sep. 19, 2013• Hong Kong braced for 'strongest

storm on earth' as 180mph monster Super-Typhoon Usagi gains strength over the Pacific

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Our Future-Our Choices