ISLAMABAD: The UN formed a global delta accord to protect Pakistan’s great River Indus’s receding delta from climate change’s environmental and ecosystem challenges.
A strong international civil society nexus of experts, academicians, policymakers, and stakeholders unanimously called for an international UN Convention for the Conservation River Delta (UN-CCRD) on the sequel of its UN Human Rights Declaratio UN Geneva Pact, and many others to ensure that all the major deltas of the world were dying due to climate change, environmental degradation, and sea I
The Nigerian Bayelsa State Government. The Institute for Environmental Diplomacy and Security at Vermont. While, The Consortium for Capacity Building at Colorado, Transboundary Water In-Cooperation Network (TWIN). Water Environment Forum-Pakistan, Center for the Advancement of Public Action (CAPA) Bennington College, Vietnam National University, and ACCARD collaborated.
Moreover, Former senator, federal minister for information and media, and Global Environment Forum Chairperson represented Pakistan at the sidelines event. Moreover, Freeman Elohor Oluowo of ACCARD and Institute for Environmental Diplomacy, Vermont Director Prof Dr Asim Zia attended the session.
The global deal would achieve SDG-6, SDG-13, and SDG-14.
UN delta convention advocates won.
Lecturers and experts examined deltas from the Nigerian Niger Delta, Pakistani Indus Delta, Mekong River, Colorado, Nile, and St. Lawrence transboundary river basins.
Moreover, Rising sea levels, ocean saltwater intrusion, melting glaciers, dams, and highland rainfall threaten each delta.
The UN reported that sea level rise and encroachment affected soil and water ecosystems in all deltas.
Nature, communities, livelihoods, and lives needed global protection.
Delta nations will pursue UN Conservation River Delta Convention.
According to the UN SDGs website, the UN Convention for the Conservation River Deltas (UN-CCRD) aims to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity among delta communities and water stakeholders to climate-related hazards and natural disasters through knowledge sharing, partnerships, global attention, UN recognition, and community participation.
It also wants to develop a regional-to-global stakeholder forum to uncover and propose integrative Highlands to Oceans (H2O) water solutions, especially those exacerbated by climate change.
To teach countries to collect community data and solve complicated problems contextually.
