World Bank to facilitate MoCC to attract international donors

Initiative aims to arrange finances for priority environmental projects

ISLAMABAD: World Bank agreed to facilitate international conference with Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) Pakistan to attract potential international donors to arrange finances for funding key environmental projects in Pakistan. This was decided in a meeting of World Bank delegation with the Advisor to the Prime Minister on climate change Malik Amin Aslam Khan at MoCC Islamabad on Friday.

Federal Secretary Climate Change Shahrukh Nusrat and Additional Secretary Khurram Ali Agha were also present in the meeting.



A World Bank delegation was led by the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural, and Resilience (SURR) Strategy and Operations Director Anna Wellenstein. World Bank called on Aslam to discuss common modalities for future cooperation in climate related projects.

Aslam apprised the delegates that environment is a major part of our party's eleven points agenda which we are going to implement now. Initially we successfully completed the one billion tree tsunami projects into in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) which was appreciated globally and now we are upscaling this in to a ten billion tsunami tree plantation project to implement at a national level. While on the other hand to fulfill our international commitments, we have initiated another flagship programme "Clean Green Pakistan." Prime Minister Imran Khan is going to inaugurate it by Saturday.



While sharing the salient features of this "Clean Green Pakistan" he stated that this initiative will focus on five major areas which include plantation, solid and liquid waste management, clean water and hygiene.

Aslam further said that we are well aware of challenges we face due to climate change and have clear agendas on how to deal with these issues. We are also focusing on the adaptation side as well.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 13^th, 2018.