A global climate conference, part of Dawnmedia ‘Breathe Pakistan’ initiative, will begin soon at the Jinnah Convention Center in Islamabad today.
The two -day international conference will attend national and international experts to find viable solutions to climate change. Its objective is to mobilize finance and find solutions to counteract climate change.
The debatable will bring together leaders, experts and innovatives who are dedicated to forming a sustainable future both nationally and internationally, so that Pakistan is climate resistant by 2047.
By involving prominent figures dedicated to the fight against climate change throughout southern Asia, the conference aims to promote significant collaboration between the countries of southern Asia to create a strategic framework to minimize the adverse impacts of climatic disasters.
Climate change does not know borders, and the countries of southern Asia collectively deal with problems such as increased temperatures, unpredictable climatic patterns, water scarcity and the growing frequency of natural disasters.
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.
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).
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.
