{"id":88916,"date":"2022-09-25T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T04:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=88916"},"modified":"2022-09-23T16:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:48:04","slug":"un-map-pakistans-glaciers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/un-map-pakistans-glaciers.html","title":{"rendered":"UN to map Pakistan\u2019s glaciers to develop early warning system for natural calamities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lahore: The United Nations (UN) is working to launch a project to map the glaciers of northern Pakistan to help develop an early warning system to minimize losses during natural calamities, according to news published on September 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/adb-flood-rehabilitation-pakistan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ADB announces short and long-term flood rehabilitation programme for Pakistan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this initiative, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) will map as many as 5,000 glaciers in the coming 1.5 years to quantify the rate at which the ice is melting. This information was revealed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/cda-undp-waste-management-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UNDP<\/a> Representative in Pakistan Knut Ostby, who highlighted that the country has one of the highest numbers of glaciers in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Otsby stated that UNDP will set up early warning systems in the northern areas including; Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and revealed that another 110 valleys will also require the installation of such systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/imf-support-relief-flood-areas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IMF to support relief and reconstruction of flood hit areas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the source, it is a high-priority task given the increased rate of melting glaciers and subsequent formation of lakes in the mountains, which is leading to an increased risk of floods. The recent floods in Pakistan have exposed the country\u2019s vulnerability to climate change, which is why immediate steps are needed to control the devastation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: The United Nations (UN) is working to launch a project to map the glaciers of northern Pakistan to help develop an early warning system to minimize losses during natural calamities, according to news published on September 16. Read:\u00a0ADB announces short and long-term flood rehabilitation programme for Pakistan Under this initiative, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) will map as many as 5,000 glaciers in the coming 1.5 years to quantify the rate at which the ice is melting. This information was revealed by UNDP Representative in Pakistan Knut Ostby, who highlighted that the country has one of the highest numbers of glaciers in the world. Mr Otsby stated that UNDP will set up early warning systems in the northern areas including; Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and revealed that another 110 valleys will also require the installation of such systems. Read:\u00a0IMF to support relief and reconstruction of flood hit areas As per the source, it is a high-priority task given the increased rate of melting glaciers and subsequent formation of lakes in the mountains, which is leading to an increased risk of floods. The recent floods in Pakistan have exposed the country\u2019s vulnerability to climate change, which is why immediate steps&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":78298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181,15017],"tags":[54212,23561],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"category-notices-announcements","9":"tag-un-to-map-pakistans-glaciers-to-develop-early-warning-system-for-natural-calamities","10":"tag-united-nations-development-programme-undp","11":"cat-15181-id","12":"cat-15017-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN to map Pakistan\u2019s glaciers to create warning system - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lahore: The United Nations (UN) is working to launch a project to map the glaciers of northern Pakistan to help develop an early warning system to\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/un-map-pakistans-glaciers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UN to map Pakistan\u2019s glaciers to create warning system - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore: The United Nations (UN) is working to launch a project to map the glaciers of northern Pakistan to help develop an early warning system to\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/un-map-pakistans-glaciers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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