{"id":77107,"date":"2018-09-04T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77107"},"modified":"2018-09-04T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T10:51:01","slug":"ministry-of-climate-change-to-start-glacial-lake-outburst-flood-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=77107","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Climate Change to start Glacial Lake Outburst Flood project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\">\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Islamabad, Sept. 4 (TNS): Ministry of Climate Change will initiate Glacial Lake Outburst Flood-II (GLOF-II) Project costing 37 million US dollars with support of Climate Change Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">According to a senior official of the ministry, under the project ,250 small scale structures, including check dams, mini dams, ponds, spillways and slope stabilization would be constructed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">Besides, 50 weather monitoring stations and 408 river discharge gauges and sensors were also established.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The project will be started in various areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">The official said Climate Change Council would be set up as the apex decision-making body under the Pakistan Climate Change Act, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #333333;\">He said both the Climate Change Council and Climate Change Authority will supervise implementation of the National Climate Change Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals in cordination.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Sept. 4 (TNS): Ministry of Climate Change will initiate Glacial Lake Outburst Flood-II (GLOF-II) Project costing 37 million US dollars with support of Climate Change Fund. 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