'Green house gas emission is only 0.7 percent in Pakistan'

President Pakistan Engineering Congress (PEC) engineer Iftikhar Ahmad said that Pakistan is under pressure due the effect of Green House Gas Emissions although green house gas emission in Pakistan is only 0.7 percent. He was addressing the seminar on World Environment Day on the theme of seven billion dreams. One planet consume with care" organized by Pakistan Engineering Congress here on Saturday. President Pakistan Engineering Council engineer Syed Abdul Qadir Shah.
Iftikhar said that abnormal increase in green house emissions has created an alarming situation in the world. The largest pollutants in the world are China (22.7 percent), America (15.6 percent), India (5.7 percent) and Russia (5.40 percent). Due to green house emissions the temperature has increased 3-4 degree centigrade above pre-industrial area. The effect of green house emissions is melting of glaciers, untimely rains, floods and droughts. In the seminar speakers presented their papers on the major issues like energy, consumption of water, temperature variations, population, growth, food security and other environmental factors.