SAARC CCI to organise seminar on ‘Climate Resilient South Asia’

ISLAMABAD: The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) will organise a one-day seminar on “A Climate Resilient South Asia: Turning Climate Smart Investment Opportunities into Reality”.

The event will be organised in collaboration with the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and in partnership with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom on July 15, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The seminar is aimed at showcasing and streamlining the strategies based on innovation and entrepreneurship as the drivers to create new knowledge, find new models of doing business and transforming good ideas into great products, says a press release issued here.

The impacts of climate change on business assets, supply chains and business interruptions, besides climate change effects which were causing a decline in living standards, would be discussed in the day-long seminar.

The untapped potential of countries in the region in climate-smart investing in sectors including renewable energy, transport, green buildings, urban waste-water, climate-smart agriculture and municipal solid waste management would be the other topics of the deliberations.

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