Call for teamwork to create climate resilience

The minister held a meeting with country directors of INGOs on the panel of Pakistan Humanitarian Forum

ISLAMABAD:

Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman has said the collaboration among key stakeholders is crucial to building climate resilience in Pakistan.

According to a statement, the minister held a meeting with the delegation of country directors of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) on the panel of Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) as part of consultation for the International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan, scheduled to be held in Geneva on January 9, 2023.

Speaking to the delegation, the federal minister said “this high-level conference in Geneva aims to marshal international support for the people and government of Pakistan to move forward on recovery as soon as possible after the country went through the world’s worst climate event in living memory”.

The plan to rehabilitate, recover and rebuild with resilience is urgent, but we face a huge funding gap even for first-order recovery needs, given that we are servicing rehabilitation and relief for 33 million people, she said.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2023.