The deputy spokesman of MoFA, Zia Ahmad Takal, said that Afghans have suffered more than $2 billion in financial losses due to climate change over the last year.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a statement has called for urgent collective action to halt the destructive impacts of the climate change in Afghanistan.
According to the UN, Afghanistan is one of the least prepared countries against climate shocks but is ranked the sixth most affected in the world to climate-related threats.
In a statement issued by the UN early this week, it said Afghanistan is already prone to frequent natural disasters that cause loss and damage to lives, livelihoods, homes and infrastructure.
“These existing threats coupled with Afghans’ high dependence on agricultural livelihoods, Afghanistan’s fragile ecosystem, acute environmental degradation, poor socio-economic development and the impact of more than four decades of war have laid the foundation for extreme climate vulnerability,” the statement said.
Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Humanitarian Coordinator said: “It is ordinary Afghans who suffer the most when these shocks occur.”
According to Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and Humanitarian Coordinator, it is devastating to see the most vulnerable Afghans bear the brunt of environmental disasters, and it is increasingly challenging to build long term resilience and adaptation when we are constantly managing short term crises and in the absence of sufficient adaptation funding.
Alakbarov meanwhile stated that in a world of wars, crises and fragmentation – and in the wake of conflict in Afghanistan, all must come together to find concrete solutions to the climate emergency.
“I encourage Afghanistan’s current de facto administration to take the threat of climate change and environmental degradation seriously, and to harness the great diversity of Afghanistan to bring together all corners of Afghan society to cooperatively address these threats,” he said adding it will take every Afghan to tackle the challenges that lie ahead.
Meanwhile, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in connection with the climate change in a statement said that climate issues must remain separate from any political issues.
The deputy spokesman of MoFA, Zia Ahmad Takal, said that Afghans have suffered more than $2 billion in financial losses due to climate change over the last year.
“As the effects of the climate change has no borders, its solution should be also away from political issues and the countries like Afghanistan which had no role in climate change but were severely affected by it, must be focused on,” he said. This comes amid of concerns that have raised over climate change in the world. Meanwhile, the 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change began on Sunday in Sharm El-Shaikh, Egypt and will run over three days, ended Tuesday.
Saida Ahmadi
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