Govt urged to make CPEC model green belt

LAHORE:

Pakistan-China Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Moazzam Ghurki has said that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor should be turned into a model green BRI to protect and preserve natural environment in the region.

"It will preserve the environment as well as accelerate the pace of green technologies and production of green energies in the ongoing CPEC projects in the country," he said at a think tank session at the PCJCCI on Thursday. He stressed that intensified plantation, development and support for natural forestation, bee honey hatcheries and production as well as green tourism activities would play a pivotal role in that endeavour.

Speaking at the event, PCJCCI Senior Vice President Fang Yulong underscored that China was one of the main drivers of green technologies, the hub of alternative energies and the biggest investor of renewables in the world having resources and appropriate expertise to assist Pakistan to maintain equilibrium between industrialisation and green environment.