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'Progress' Environment Protection And Promotion Services (PEPPS)
Pakistan is faced with serious ecological crises, which has profound implications for the economy as well as human well being. Our national policies have by and large provided a pattern of over consumption by the elite, through excessive and unsustainable use of natural resources, whether it is water, forest or soil in the croplands, all have badly damaged the national asset base of the country.
Poor national resource management coupled with a high population growth rate, agriculture runoff, and industrial runoff have all made and adverse impact on Pakistan’s environment. Focus has been on achieving self sufficiency in food production, meeting energy demands, and containing its high rate of population growth, rather on curtailing pollution or other environmental hazards, and ‘green concerns as such have not been the governments top priority.
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| PEPPS is committed to promoting public awareness and education on environment and other issues related to sustainable national development. Accordingly it organizes workshops, seminars and conferences, targeting different sectors, inviting experts and stakeholders from the public and the private sector, the civil society, academia, national and international agencies, NGOs, community groups and all others with the goal of providing a neutral platform for exchange of ideas, information and expertise on environment and sustainable development; to develop academic and training materials and programs for enhancing of awareness and community participation, and to create and strengthen leadership in all walks of life that will encourage a form of development which is environmentally sound, equitable and enhances the quality of life for the present and future generations.
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