ISLAMABAD: On Thursday, acting Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar opened the recently built state-of-the-art The National Emergencies Operation Centre (NEOC) will assist in organising future attempts to control natural disasters. The Centre would be established at the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Headquarters and aid in disaster risk reduction and damage mitigation. The prime minister praised the creation of NEOC and emphasised the significance of infrastructure and policy frameworks that are disaster-resistant. Pakistan, he claimed, was one of the nations most negatively impacted by climate change despite being one of the countries with the lowest global carbon emissions.
If we don’t make these drastic changes, climate change will continue to be a problem for future generations, he said. The coordinated actions of all state organisations, particularly NDMA, during the terrible floods of 2022 were praised by the prime minister as well. “Nearly one third of the country’s population was affected by floods in 2022, with estimated economic losses of USD 30 billion,” he stated. The world has to step up and assist developing nations like Pakistan in coping with the negative effects of climate change, according to the prime minister. He also appreciated NCOC’s contributions to COVID-19 and the floods of 2022.