ISLAMABAD, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Coordinator to the Pakistani prime minister on climate change and environmental coordination Romina Khurshid Alam has stressed that soaring temperatures in the mountainous regions globally including in Pakistan are accompanied by changes in seasonal weather patterns, melting of glaciers, and the thawing of permafrost.

As a result, water flows and its availability for industrial, household and agricultural uses has been shrinking and becoming increasingly unreliable in Pakistan, she said while chairing a meeting held here on Wednesday, the Pakistani Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination said in a statement.

Highlighting the challenges from rapidly melting glaciers, Alam said that preventing the loss of ecosystem and protecting lives and livelihoods are not possible without the international community joining hands to tackle the drivers of global warming, particularly containing emissions of heat-trapping gases.

She stressed the initiatives which can help slow down global warming are direly needed to overcome the devastating impacts of climate change on glaciers, mountains, ecosystems, water flows, agriculture, public health, and education.

The coordinator said that adopting sustainable means of production and consumption is key to tackling climate change and its impacts on various socio-economic sectors, particularly water resources, agriculture, energy, health and education. Enditem

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