About the initiative
Besides provides training and consultancy services to our clients with excellence, iACE is striving to achieve environmental stewardship in Pakistan by gathering all professionals, academia including researchers, industrialists, regulatory bodies, law makers and environmental practitioners/ consultants on one page to achieve environmental excellence.
The Global Climate Risk Index has placed Pakistan on the fifth spot on the list of countries most vulnerable to climate change in its annual report for 2020, which was released by the think-tank Germanwatch. Also, Pakistan is reiterating its commitment and obligations towards United Nations Framework on Climate Change and Paris Agreement. Many organisations and institutions are working formally and informally for improving environmental performance. The Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) submitted by Pakistan requires all the stakeholders to make collective efforts so that activities being performed by the organisations could be streamlined, therefore, areas that could not be focused earlier could be identified instead of reinventing the wheel.
The industrial sector in Pakistan is progressing however due to lack of appropriate technical support, environmental management like air emission control, effluent management, waste management etc. appears as a financial burden only. This also results either in violation of laws often in form of issuance of environmental protection orders (EPOs) to industries or they incur very high costs for compliance due to lack of knowledge and support that could offer them feasible solutions.
Despite the unanimous importance of environmental science as an extremely important field of study, there is no authority to register or accredit environmentalists. The dark side of this scenario is due to this non-recognition, usually the positions for environmentalists are given to people having limited or no technical understanding of environmental aspects and impacts. Preference is given to engineers as they have a recognised professional status.
Another key issue in environmental researcher sector is unavailability of local data. There is no integrated database to provide data on all aspects of environmental sciences and this also affects the level of research and research quality in Pakistan. Besides these, there is no formal or informal mechanism to educate people regarding environmental issues at grass-root levels.
As concerned citizens first and as environmental professionals, iACE team decided to address these issues and formed “Committee of Environmental Counselors (CEC)”. With the aim to get this initiative recognised as a public private partnership and find solutions for most of our problems, we invite you all to be a part of this network.
Once any professional or organisation registers to CEC, they are eligible to all the benefits.
For further information and queries, write to us at cec@intelloace.com or contact 0333-3954873.
For registration, use the following links according to the category applied for:
Professionals: Click here
Industries/ companies: Click here
Environmental organisations/ NGOs: Click here
