ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change MalikAmin Aslam on Saturday said Pakistan planned to adapt to zero carbonemission goal by 2050 in energy by using all types of renewable andlow-carbon sources.
This he stated while speaking at an International webinar on ‘Nuclearenergy: a key to Net Zero (Green Future)’, in Islamabad.
The PM’s aide said the government planned to use 40,000 megawatt nuclearenergy by 2050 and also to make optimal use of wind, hydel, solar andnuclear resources to meet the goals set by the Conference of the Parties-26recently held in Glasgow, Scotland.
On February 25, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had invitedNetherlands top companies to establish waste-to-energy projects in Karachiand use the latest technology to depollute Manchhar.
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He had said this in a meeting with Ambassador of Netherlands Willem WouterPlomp and Advisor to CM on Trade Hammad Raza and his trade counsellor YasirFarooqui at the CM House in Karachi.
The visiting ambassador had told the chief minister that their companieswere interested in investing and establishing the `waste-to-energy’ projectin Karachi. “We have one of the top companies in the world working in thewaste to energy sector,” he had disclosed.
