Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Pakistan is committed to mitigateimpacts of climate change by cleaning up the environment.
He was virtually addressing the Climate Ambition Summit to mark the fifthanniversary of the signing of the landmark Paris Agreement.
The Prime Minister in his address assured the world that Pakistan will bedoing its best to make its contribution to mitigate the effects of climatechange.
He vowed to scrap its coal based power projects, produce 60 per cent cleanenergy through renewable resources and run 30 percent of its vehicles onelectricity by the year 2030.
The Prime Minister, who has won accolades globally for his ambitious treeplantation campaign that helped increase forest cover by one millionhectares, said his government has decided to have nature-based solutions tomitigate the effects of climate change by planting 10 billion trees in thenext three years.
Read Top Stories
Imran Khan said Pakistan increased the number of national parks and itsprotected areas from 30 to 45.
Referring to the country’s indigenous coal reserves, the Prime Ministersaid we have decided to produce energy either by coal to liquid or coal togas, so that we do not have to burn coal to produce energy.
