Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar who is representing Karachi city in the Ninth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok on Tuesday, signed a declaration of Asian Mayors for taking initiatives to control the water, air and land pollution in big cities of Asia
KARACHI (Pakistan Point News / NNI - 05th March, 2019) Mayor Karachi Wasim Akhtar who is representing Karachi city in the Ninth Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok on Tuesday, signed a declaration of Asian Mayors for taking initiatives to control the water, air and land pollution in big cities of Asia.The Forum co-organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (M0NRE) of Thailand, the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of Japan (MOB), and the United Nations Centre for Regional Development (UNCRD) of Division for Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG)/UN DESA being held in Bangkok on 4-6 March, 2019 has been attended by the mayors of Asian cities and other representatives.
The 9th Regional 3R Forum in Asia and the Pacific, under the theme of 3R as a way for moving towards sufficiency economy-Implications for SDGs" aims to address how 3R and resource efficiency could play a critical role in achieving sufficiency economy which advocates rationale use of natural resources that gives people better environment, qualityof life and livelihood security as well as prudence and built-in self-immunity to cope with external shocks and global volatility through balanced development.
Worldwide there is a growing recognition of circular economic development approach as one of the key drivers towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the underlined SDGs.While the Asia-Pacific countries are progressively addressing and adopting 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) policies and programmes, including technological interventions, the region still fees several challenges in achieving sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12), among others.
The resource intensive conventional economic development patterns along with indiscriminate demand for raw materials and natural resources have not only brought heavy environmental and social impacts, but also have challenged the lasting supply security of resources for the current as well as the future generations. A resource efficient and circular economic development model calls for a transition of the management of natural resources with a progressive minimization of waste in both consumption and production processes through a range of 3R policies and measures.With unprecedented levels of urbanization and emergence of new mega-cities, one of the defining features for the region's sustainability in terms of resource security will be to progressively adopt the low carbon, resource efficient and circular economic principles in all development sectors. NNI
