The British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Christian Turner, laudedPakistan on Sunday for announcing no new coal power projects and forcontributing less than one percent to global carbon emissions.
In a series of tweets, Turner announced that Pakistan is a global leader inclimate action under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan. However,despite this, Pakistan remains the fifth most vulnerable country to climatechange.——————————
Turner also revealed that Pakistan and the UK are cooperating to tackleclimate change.
While speaking via video-link at the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, PM Khansaid that Pakistan has already replaced two coal power-based projects withhydroelectricity.
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The premier said, “As far as our indigenous coal goes, we have decided toproduce energy either by coal to liquid, or coal to gas, so we do not haveto burn coal to produce energy”.
