A Pakistani project has been selected as a finalist for the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2011. A statement here on Tuesday said that the finalists will compete for more than pounds 120,000 prize money. It said that the winners would be announced at a ceremony to be held in London on June 16. The statement pointed out that the Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan’s innovative programme BACIP (Building and Construction Improvement Programme) has been selected as one of the finalists for the awards. – via: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk.
Aga Khan Planning and Building Service, Pakistan (AKPBS,P) for an innovative programme providing families in remote mountain villages with access to affordable, energy efficient technologies which warm their homes, heat their water and reduce their consumption of fuel wood. The programme tackles deforestation and climate change by saving 100,000 tonnes of wood a year and preventing emissions of around 160,000 tonnes a year of CO2. AKPBS,P aims to extend this approach to other Himalayan countries, which face similar challenges and reach another 17,000 homes by 2014.
http://www.ashdenawards.org/files/press_releases/InternationalFinalPressRelease2011.pdf
AKPBS: http://www.akdn.org/akpbs.asp – AKPBS In Pakistan: http://www.akdn.org/akpbs_pakistan.asp
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Ismailimail 
thank BACIP for your keen efforts to maintain the beauty of gilgit baltistan, the recent flood shows us how we had deforestaion in our area, so you are requesting to extent this progaram in other areas specialy dareail and Tangir districts where people are not aware of causes in calimatical changing, the recent flood has damaged the irrigation channel of sonikot pain which supplies the water for 4000 canal agricultural and forestly land, the local governmet is assureing us to repair since 2010, now the agricultural land is getting drey, please please visit this area which is near your office to down ward i think it may be only 2 KM, and save the agricultur and foresty land,,
looking forward for your cordial response
islamuddin
Sonikot
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