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Pakistan achieves UN climate action goal 10 years ahead of deadline
Country focusing on plantation, biodiversity conservation, investment in clean energy

20:13 July 13, 2020
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The Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project aims to slow down the effects of global warming in Pakistan.
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Sana Jamal, Correspondent
Islamabad: Pakistan has turned its green ambitions into reality by achieving UN Climate Action Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-13) a decade ahead of the 2030 deadline.

“This is an outstanding achievement for Pakistan to attain the crucial ‘Goal 13 - Climate Action’ well before the 2030 deadline”, Malik Amin Aslam, Advisor to Prime Minister on Climate Change, told Gulf News. “With this milestone, Pakistan has demonstrated its commitment to the clean and green future and contribution to global efforts to tackle the challenge of climate change,” he said.

How Pakistan achieved the green goal?
Pakistan’s continuous efforts and initiatives of large-scale afforestation, biodiversity conservation, investment in clean energy, electric vehicles and green jobs to combat climate change impacts have earned the country worldwide acclaim, said Aslam. Detailing some of the key green projects he mentioned 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Program, Clean Green Pakistan Initiative, Clean Green Pakistan Index, Protected Areas Initiative (15 new national parks), Ecosystem Restoration Fund for facilitating green growth and policies consistent with the objectives of Pakistan’s Nationally Determined Contribution and attaining Land Degradation Neutrality. These initiatives have been taken to prevent and to be better prepared for the threat of climate change experienced by the country such as floods, heat waves, droughts and melting glaciers.

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Transition to green economy and clean energy
Transition to green economy and green future is at the core of Pakistan government’s policies spearheaded by Prime Minister Imran Khan. The government has initiated steps to “convert China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project into China Pakistan Green Economic Corridor project”, the premier’s aide said. “We have deferred 2740 MW of imported coal projects signed by the previous government and replaced it by zero-carbon and hydropower projects of 3700 MW” the advisor informed. “This shift [towards clean energy] shows the government’s commitment to climate-friendly and sustainable development beneficial for both Pakistan and the global community.”

Green achievement hailed
UNDP Pakistan hailed the achievement with this message on Twitter: “Pakistan has achieved SDG13‬ well before the 2030 deadline with the technical support from ‪UNDP‬”. It was also shared that “‪UNDP in Pakistan‬ and ‪Climate Change PK‬ celebrate the achievement of ‪SDG13‬ and our longstanding strategic partnership.”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬


Pakistan’s Climate Change ministry on its official page said that “Pakistan has passed a crucial milestone on the road to environmental protection by meeting the overarching UN‬ Sustainable Development Goal 13 ten years ahead of the deadline”. Goal 13 calls for urgent actions to combat climate change its impacts.


Pakistan’s Green Stimulus package announced in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to protect nature while offering green jobs to ‘guardians of nature’ was highly appreciated by global experts. “This is an excellent model for linking economic development with a new deal for nature” said Dr Kathy MacKinnon, Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas.

UN SDGs for a better and sustainable world
The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by all UN member states in 2015, offers a roadmap to achieve a better and sustainable future. The 17 SDGs are an urgent call for action by all countries to improve health and education, water and sanitation, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth while tackling climate change and preserving the environment.

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But why data showing like this??

in 1947 most probably India&Pak has same percentage of forest cover,now

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India forest cover
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Tree tsunami has turned Baloki area in Punjab green: PM
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In this 2019 file photo, schoolchildren plant saplings in connection with the 10 billion trees tsunami project at Baloki Nature Reserve Project. — APP/File
ISLAMABAD: Almost a year after Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the 10 Billion Tree Tsunami programme, the landscape in Baloki has turned green.

“Massive change visible in Baloki, Punjab a year after the government initiated its tree plantation drive. As an environmentalist, it gives me the greatest satisfaction to leave a green Pakistan for our coming generations,” Prime Minister Imran Khan stated in a tweet,


Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said that it was a treat to visit Balloki Nature Reserve, near Sheikhupura, after PM Khan inaugurated it in 2019, as part of the plantation drive. “The results in a year are phenomenal,” he said in a tweet. He also posted a before and after video of Baloki, which was completely barren a year ago.
Their messages coincide with observations from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Pakistan on World Nature Conservation Day, that remind people about the importance of conserving natural resources and the environment. “Our natural resources are deteriorating due to habitat destruction, deforestation, poaching, illegal wildlife trade, agricultural expansion, industrial development, pollution, use of fertilisers, pesticides and chemicals etc. Nature underpins our societies, health and economies, yet we are destroying it faster than it can replenish itself,” WWF stated.

Mr Aslam, further said: “Boosting tree covers in urban areas through sustainable and community-driven urban forestry initiatives has been made a central part of the country’s largest afforestation programme, launched last year as a part of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision for the Clean and Green Pakistan Programme.. Urban forestry initiatives under the TBTTP will lead to establishment of green urban forest islands, where indigenous fruit and non-fruit trees will be planted to stem, among others, frequenting and intensifying incidents of heat wave, dust storms, urban flooding, soil degradation due to cloudbursts and air pollution.

Without promoting urban forestry by involving communities, students, corporate sector and other civil society organisations, the country’s various urban areas including Lahore, Karachi, Hyderabad, Multan, Faisalabad, Peshawar and Rawalpindi will continue to remain increasingly vulnerable to various socio-economic, environmental problems.”

Published in Dawn, August 1st, 2020

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PM Imran wants public to join him in tree plantation drive on Tiger Force Day


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PM Imran has expressed hope that the drive will turn into the "biggest tree planting campaign" in history -- File photo


ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked the nationals to join him in a tree plantation drive across the country on Sunday to celebrate 'Tiger Force Day' falling on August 9.

In a message on Twitter, the premier said that he has also asked the members of parliament, ministers and chief ministers to participate in the plantation drive.

Expressing hope that the drive will turn into the "biggest tree planting campaign" in history, he said: “The target is 35 lakh trees in a day, though we will try to exceed it.”

According to details, to participate in the plantation drive set for tomorrow, the volunteers have taken charge of their roles and divided into different teams to dispense their duties.

Following the prime minister’s directives, the distribution of 350,000 saplings has been completed so that they can be planted on Sunday.

Special Assistant to PM on Youth Affairs Usman Dar also sent across a message ahead of the campaign, asking opposition politicians Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto, Khawaja Asif and others to join the plantation drive.

“The Sindh government should [join us in] favour of national interest,” said the politician.

Dar said the prime minister will also be in the field along with other volunteers and the general public tomorrow, adding the drive will begin from Islamabad under the premier, while CM Punjab Usman Buzdar will commence it from Sialkot.

He said that civil society, district administration, Forestry department and the citizenry should work together to make the campaign successful.

PM Imran announces August 9 as Tiger Force Day

In July, PM Imran Khan had announced that August 9 will be celebrated as Tiger Force Day and a massive plantation drive would be launched across the country to combat the adverse effects of climate change.

In a broadcast message today, the prime minister said that he will personally become a part of the plantation drive.

“We have to plant 10 billion trees until 2023,” said the premier.

Calling pollution and global warming the impetus behind the plantation drive, the premier said that the volunteer force will set a record by planting the maximum number of trees.

PM Imran said that due to pollution, the health of the general public is deteriorating and it was high time to initiate a response to the problem.
 
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PM Imran to launch country's largest plantation campaign today with a target of 3.5 million saplings

Dawn.com
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In a tweet on Saturday, the premier had asked members of parliament, the chief ministers of all the provinces and volunteers from the Corona Relief Tiger Force to participate in the plantation drive. — Dawn

Prime Minister Imran Khan will launch the country's largest tree plantation campaign today (Sunday), with a target of planting 3.5 million saplings across the country, according to Radio Pakistan.

In a tweet on Saturday, the premier had asked members of parliament, the chief ministers of all the provinces and volunteers from the Corona Relief Tiger Force to participate in the plantation drive, which is being carried out on Tiger Force Day.

"The target is 35 lakh trees in a day though we will try to exceed it," the premier had said


Chinese Ambassador Yao Jing, Azerbaijan Ambassador Ali Alizada and Turkish Ambassador Ihsan Mustafa Yurdaku also participated in the drive by planting saplings at their respective embassies.


Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam had said that one million Tiger Force volunteers will plant 3.5 million indigenous fruit and non-fruit tree saplings along with the climate change ministry and provincial forest departments.

He had added that two million saplings will be planted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1.2 million in Punjab, 303,646 in Azad Kashmir, 57,000 in Balochistan and 15,000 in Gilgit-Baltistan.

There have been 682 events organised across the country. NGOs and international NGOs, educational institutions and local communities will also participate.
 
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