ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Amin Aslam on Thursday asserted that 60 percent of all energy produced in Pakistan will be clean or renewable by 2030 while 30 percent of all vehicles would be transferred to electricity.
“The world has to do more, and fast-track efforts to confront the climate change,” Prime Minister Imran Khan’s aide stressed while addressing the virtual US-led Leaders Summit on Climate hosted by the US government in Washington on April 22, also the World Earth Day.
He said while being highly climate-vulnerable country and with one percent share in overall planet-warming carbon emissions, Pakistan is making all-out efforts to walk on the green pathway as a part of global climate action.
The Special Assistant called upon the global community to ‘do more’ on the global climate action to protect the world community from unfolding deleterious impacts of climate change. “The world needs to get off the warpath with nature,” he stressed,
He appreciated the US government for convening the Climate Summit at a time when the world is passing through a critical time in the climate negotiation processes. “It is a high time the world shows seriousness by delivering real climate action on the ground and not put talks,” he added.
The PM’s aide highlighted that Pakistan is striving to be a part of the solution and is committed to not adding to the problem of climate change. “Given the backdrop, Prime Minister Imran Khan is leading Pakistan away from a coal future towards a clean energy future but we need access to best available technologies and associated finance,” he added.
He suggested three types of climate finances to be delivered that include committed finance of $100 billion per year, adaptation finance for impacted countries like Pakistan and transition finance for helping countries shift to clean energy.
“Prime Minister Imran Khan has ramped up efforts to boost the country’s resilience through nature-based solutions to offset the adverse impacts,” he informed the participants of the summit.
“As a part of nature-based solutions, the government has already launched 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (TBTTP) after successfully planting a billion trees under the Billion Tree Tsunami Programme (BTTP),” he highlighted.
The PM’s aide further said that another ambitious Protected Areas Initiative (PAI) launched last year under the over-arching programme ‘Green Pakistan’ aims at the conservation and promotion of nature-based solutions and creation of additional 5,000 green jobs for community members in the protected areas.
Malik Amin Aslam also called upon the world to take more action and talk less to push forward the climate negotiations at the UN-led global climate conference in November 2021 in Glasgow. “However, inaction on climate crisis is no option,” PM’s aide concluded.
The United States last week invited Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam to be a distinguished speaker at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate being hosted by the US President Joe Biden.
