Sherry Rehman urges stakeholders to incentivize EV buyers to overcome climate change impacts.

Senator and Chairperson, Standing Committee on Climate Change, Sherry Rehman warned Saturday that transport-born pollution might double over the next 10-year in Pakistan, stressing upon the stakeholders to incentivize the electric vehicle (EV) buyers and users to overcome the rising challenges of climate change in the country.

“The number of motor vehicles in use is going to double over the next 10 years, (and) as they double, you can’t breathe…vehicular emission amounted to 48% of the entire pollution mix and aggravated by industry and agriculture waste burning in Pakistan,” Rehman said.

She was addressing at a conference on ‘Pakistan Electric Vehicle – Accelerating the Transition to a Sustainable Future’, organized by Climate Action Center (CAC). She maintained that since a significant part of the atmospheric pollution is produced locally then the nation can all alone overcome the air quality challenge. “We are not helpless in the situation and we do not need a vast network of multilateral conferences to make change happen.”

“To make breathe again, we don’t need to go the whole world with us. We need to do ourselves,” said Rehman, who is also a former federal minister for Climate Change.

She said Pakistan is capable to partly overcome climate challenges through electric vehicle revolution. To make it happens, the government and the private sector have to incentivize vehicle customer, especially the two and three-wheeler who comprise 84% of the total vehicle population in the country.

“We have to offer incentives on import taxes and tariffs especially to two and three wheelers… momentum cannot be created and accelerated only on ethical and moral grounds.”

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