The Pakistani Daily Times reports on a new initiative devised by the country’s Federal Minister for Climate Change to try and tackle environmental degradation and air pollution:

Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan has said that trees are sign of the life on earth and they are inevitable for tackling escalating environmental degradation and different health diseases.

He expressed these views at the ‘Tree Plantation Campaign Spring 2015’ held in I9 Industrial Area on Monday. “Trees and forests are, in fact, the factories of oxygen production and are vital for fighting carbon dioxide. Green vegetation plays an important role in enabling human being to live a healthy life on earth,” he added.

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he minister inaugurated the spring season’s first tree plantation drive by planting a seedling on a green belt between Sector I9 and Sector I10 in the Industrial Area. Under the tree campaign, 15,000 trees would be planted in the city.

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He said that over the years, Pakistan has witnessed tree cover shrinking fast. As a result, the country’s tree cover is more or less 2 percent of the total landmass of the country. Whereas it should be 25 percent, according the international standards.

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