Global Environmental Changes & Issues: The Engrossment of Pakistan Supreme Court

Abstract

United Nations had taken initiative in 1992 to secure environment from the harmful effect it stated that "Stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system - to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner" (United Nations Framework convention on climate change, 1992). It adds that "Each of these Parties shall adopt national policies and take corresponding measures on the mitigation of climate change...and in this regard, a convention in 2014 set new principles for the member states...appropriate measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change, especially through effective measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and to minimize the adverse effects of climate change through the adoption of suitable adaptation measures."