{"id":4528,"date":"2025-04-20T21:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2025-04-20T21:06:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:06:32","slug":"moot-urges-human-centric-climate-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Moot urges human-centric climate solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At the 8th Leaders in Islamabad Business Summit 2025, industry leaders and policymakers emphasised the need to reframe Pakistan&#8217;s climate conversation, making it more localised and human-centric to drive meaningful grassroots action.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the &#8220;Climate and Sustainability&#8221; session, Sadia Dada, Chief Distribution and Marcomms Officer at K-Electric (KE), highlighted the disconnect between high-level policy discussions and community-level engagement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While climate change has long been on policy agendas, the bottom-end user still does not understand the narrative-if we lose them, we lose the momentum,&#8221; Dada stated. She stressed the importance of tailoring messages that resonate with everyday realities to encourage ethical consumption, energy conservation, and community participation.<\/p>\n<p>Dada cited KE&#8217;s award-winning Roshni Baji Programme as a successful example of localised climate action. By hiring female safety ambassadors (Roshni Bajis), KE has reached nearly a million households, educating communities on electricity safety-particularly in areas where male staff faced access challenges during daytime visits.<\/p>\n<p>She also pointed to urban infrastructure challenges, grid stress, and safety risks in densely populated communities, noting that women and children remain key agents of change. &#8220;Children are far more receptive to sustainable ideologies,&#8221; Dada said, advocating for climate education to be reintroduced in schools.<\/p>\n<p>On the digital front, she shared that over half a million KE users have shifted to e-billing, reducing paper waste and operational inefficiencies-a small change with significant sustainability gains.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Samuel Rizk (UNDP Pakistan) warned of Pakistan&#8217;s extreme vulnerability to floods, droughts, and glacial lake outbursts, urging a shift from recovery to preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A single event can claim 20,000 lives and destroy millions of households,&#8221; he said, calling for greater investment in early warning systems and localized solutions.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 8th Leaders in Islamabad Business Summit 2025, industry leaders and policymakers emphasised the need to reframe Pakistan&#8217;s climate conversation, making it more localised and human-centric to drive meaningful grassroots action. Speaking during the &#8220;Climate and Sustainability&#8221; session, Sadia Dada, Chief Distribution and Marcomms Officer at K-Electric (KE), highlighted the disconnect between high-level policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}