ISLAMABAD – Ministry of Climate Change will initiate Glacial Lake OutburstFlood-II (GLOF-II) Project costing 37 million US dollars with support ofClimate Change Fund.
According to a senior official of the ministry, under the project ,250small scale structures, including check dams, mini dams, ponds, spillwaysand slope stabilization would be constructed.
Besides, 50 weather monitoring stations and 408 river discharge gauges andsensors were also established.
The project will be started in various areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and KhyberPakhtunkhwa .
The official said Climate Change Council would be set up as the apexdecision-making body under the Pakistan Climate Change Act, 2017.
He said both the Climate Change Council and Climate Change Authority willsupervise implementation of the National Climate Change Policy and theSustainable Development Goals in cordination.