Times of Islamabad

UN COP27 named Pakistani PM as Vice Chairman to host climate crisis on global level

UN COP27 named Pakistani PM as Vice Chairman to host climate crisis on global level

ISLAMABAD – The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 has namedPakistani premier Shehbaz Sharif as vice chairman to host the climatecrisis on a global level.

Report of the country’s state-owned news agency said Pakistan has receivedthe honor as result of the effective voice raised by Prime Minister ShehbazSharif at global and regional forums.

It said Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi has invited PM Sharif toco-chair the COP-27 meeting and the premier will jointly chair theroundtable conference in Egypt’s Sharm-el-Sheikh from November 6-8.

PM will join world leaders, experts, and a whole host of other people todiscuss the climate crisis on a global level. The upcoming moot will be the27th meeting organized by the United Nations to tackle climate change andthe need for sustainable solutions.

Earlier, PM Shehbaz visited the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)Council of Heads of State and Government, Samarkand and the 77th session ofthe United Nations General Assembly, New York, where he voiced forimmediate action on climate change.