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Pakistan

Without climate justice, there can be no real resilience: PM Shehbaz addresses COP29

  • Warns 'future will not forgive our inactions'
Published November 13, 2024
LIVE: PM Shehbaz Sharif is addressing the COP-29 Climate Change Conference

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that without climate justice there can be no real resilience, warning that the “future will not forgive our inactions”.

In his address at the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP29, the PM recalled meeting flood affectees in Balochistan.

“I remember meeting a boy named Ikramullah who lost everything. His entire village was erased from the face of the earth, his home was completely demolished, and his school was also submerged.

“And we had arranged his education to another part of Pakistan,” the PM said.

He said COP29 should make this understanding loud and clear that we will have to “fulfil those financial pledges” committed at COP27 and COP28.

“And yet, I think, those huge financial commitments have to be materialised.”

“Without climate justice there can be no real resilience, “ the PM said, adding that Pakistan was fully committed to be a part of the global climate solutions.

He said the government has taken concrete actions to deliver on its commitment to producing 60% of all energy from clean sources and “shifting 30% of our vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) by the end of this decade”.

The premier said that developing countries would need an estimated $6.2 trillion by 2030 to implement less than half of their current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), calling on the international community “to take measures which are so important at this point in time to have a conducive environment” to combat climate change.

On Tuesday, in his opening remarks at the Climate Finance Roundtable Conference in Baku, the prime minister called for stronger and more actable climate finance mechanisms under the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change.

PM Shehbaz said despite repeated commitments, gaps are growing in quantum leaps, leading to egregious barriers in achieving the objective of UN framework on Climate Change.

He said developing countries will need an estimated 6.8 trillion dollars by 2030 to implement less than half their current Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

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KU Nov 13, 2024 02:11pm
Just browse through Google Earth’s satellite images of Pak over last 4 decades, the cutting of forests become apparent especially 1985-2000 in AJK, Murree hills, Galyat, KPK n Punjab. Is this justice?
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KU Nov 13, 2024 02:20pm
The PM calls for preserving the glaciers, but how? Woes of heat n climate change is upon us, we cannot stop it, must have forests, stop pollution, n build more reservoirs/dams if we are to survive.
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Ch K A Nye Nov 13, 2024 05:24pm
When he says "justice" he means "give me money with no strings attached."
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Re=== Nov 13, 2024 10:59pm
Pakistan is right front and center, when there is free money. All this nonsense about climate change justice is a way to get free money. They have not shown one way that money would be efficiently
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