Ahsan Iqbal says climate change a “lived reality”; UN Official Mohamed Yahya points out that climatic disasters become “more frequent, intense”.
At this time, a global climate conference is being held under the initiative ‘Breathe Pakistan’ of Dawnmedia at the Jinnaah Convention Center in Islamabad, gathering experts and leaders to find solutions to climate change.
The two -day discussion aims to make Pakistan resistant to the climate by 2047 while promoting regional cooperation throughout southern Asia, where countries face shared challenges from growing temperatures, water scarcity and increased disasters natural.
11:27 am: kp cm Gandapur takes the podium
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s prime minister Ali Amin Gandapur has taken the podium to address the event.
“You should have heard of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa regarding terrorism […] But today I am here to portray the contribution that our province and our people are giving to the country, ”said CM Gandapur.
He pointed out that 37pc of the Earth of KP was the forest area and represented 40-45pc of the Pakistan forest cover. He stressed: “As a carbon sink, they were eliminating 50 percent of Pakistan’s carbon.”
“According to UNDP investigation and the World Bank, for this large forest area, we need at least 332 billion rupees per year. I can’t invest so much money, but at least my province and my people can do a job of this large amount. “
Interview with Mohamed Yahya of the UN
The UN humanitarian and resident coordinator, Mohamed Yahya, is giving an exclusive interview for Dawnnews English.
“Not only are you not meeting the objectives, but they are constantly delayed due to climate change problems,” he said.
“The mitigation part is important, but adaptation is the most importantly,” he emphasized.
Look at the full interview here:
11:01 am-ak of 15 minutes
10:48: The Chief of Climate Change of the World Bank speaks
Valerie Hickey, the global director of climate change in the World Bank, has begun to address the event.
“There will be too many people who die if we expect the global north to put on the table all the money they should probably,” says Hickey.
Referring to the conversations under the Paris Agreement under the new quantified collective objective, he said: “We are excellent to find acronyms about climate change, the NCQG.”
“To go from $ 100 billion to $ 300 billion. It sounds like a lot of money. That is not. Most of it is on loans. It is not in subsidies. Most is already there. It is not addition. “
“I propose that we change the name of this Breathe Pakistan conference to lead Pakistan,” says Hickey.
10:40 AM – Yahya goes to the event
Mohamed Yahya, resident of the UN and humanitarian coordinator, now goes to the event.
“Climate change is no longer a distant threat. It is happening now. […] As [UN chief] Antonio Guterres has recently declared ‘We are on the road to the hell of the weather with feet still in the accelerator, “he said.
By pointing out that global emissions were still increasing, he highlighted how extreme climatic events, such as droughts, forest fires and floods, were becoming “more frequent, intense and more devastating.”
Remembering the floods of the 2022 monsoon that submerged a third of the country underwater, Yahya said: “A disaster of this magnitude should have been a call for attention to the world, but emissions continue to increase.”
“We must demand the climatic financing that is predictable, accessible, adequate and fair. The era of corporate and national impunity must come to an end. Our secretary general has asked pollutants to make more to be part of the solution. ”
10:31 – Ahsan Iqbal says that climate change “lived reality”
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal told the conference that climate change is not a distant challenge but a lived reality.
Referring to the Breathe Pakistan conference, Iqbal said it wasn’t just a discussion [but] A call to action.
“We must move from awareness to impact, policy to execution and efforts independent to collective responsibility,” said the minister.
Noting that climate change contributed to less than 1 percent to global, but it was still among the most affected nations, Iqbal said: “We have endured catastrophic floods, fast glacial mergers, hot waves and paralyzing droughts, all intensified in frequency in frequency and gravity. “
“As the renowned environmentalist Wendell Berry once said,” Earth is what we all have in common “and yet this common home is under siege. Not only in Pakistan but throughout the world.”
He also emphasized that another reminder of our environmental crisis was Smog, which has become a “recurring national emergency.” “Smog is not just a national problem, it is also a cross -border challenge since air pollution knows borders.”
10:26 AM – Hameed Haroon is aimed at the conference
Hameed Haroon, the CEO of the Dawn Media Group, goes to the conference, together with Nazafreen Saigol Lakhani, CEO of Pakistan Herald Publications Private Limited (PHPL).
“The amplification [of Breathe Pakistan] It becomes important when you come here because your views and interaction with Pakistani policy formulators is what will determine the combination of opinions that this country will speak, ”Haroon emphasized.
“Climate change is not just an event. As an idea of Nazafreen […]It is a belief, it is an ideology and we hope to work with you in the coming years to make a partial resilience, if not very successful, through a very acute system of climate incorporation, a reality. “
10:18 am – Conference begins
The conference has begun, with the national anthem that is played, followed by the recitation of the Sacred Koran.
10:15 AM – Planning, the Information Ministers arrive
The Minister of Planning, Ahsan Iqbal, and the Minister of Information, Attaullah Tarar, have also reached the center to attend the conference.
9:40 – The guests arrive at the place
The guests have begun to arrive at the Jinnaah Convention Center as the conference will begin.
Harjeet Singh, director of global participation of the Fossil Fuel Non -Proliferation Treaty has also reached the place. It will be part of the third panel of the Symposium in South Asia on climate change, which is scheduled from 3:30 pm to 6 pm
Speakers
The debatable will witness a session on climatic finances in which the Minister of Finance, Muhammad Aurengzeb, and two former governors of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) will discuss the critical need for the financing required for adaptation and mitigation.
Valerie Hickey, global director of climate change at the World Bank, will also address this session. Hickey will also speak in a separate panel about climatic integration and the increase in adaptive capacities of climate change countries.
The conference will also have a round table to inspire the dialogue between the government and the corporate sector and explore sustainable public-private partnerships, which will be attended by the Vice Prime Minister Ishaq Dar and the Minister of Planning Ahsan Iqbal, among others.
A session on agriculture, forestry and climate change food systems will receive the assistance of agriculture and forest experts in which the representative of the organization of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Florence Rolle, the Secretary of the Ministry of Change Climate, Aisha Humera Chaudhry, and former Climate Change Minister Malik Amin Aslam Aslam Aslam Aslam. He will speak.
In the final session of the Conference tomorrow (February 7), the former prime minister and president of the Senate Yousaf Raza Gilani will go to the audience.
Other speakers include Climate expert Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, British high commissioner Jane Marriott, the Minister of Petroleum, Senator Musadik Malik, Climate activist Karishma Ali and the youth activist Zuna Qayyum Baloch, among others.
