Pakistan achieves UN climate action goal ahead of deadline

Lahore, 16th July: Pakistan has achieved something that others might term impossible. Pakistan has fulfilled it’s UN Climate Action Sustainable Development Goal (SDG-13) 10 years before it was anticipated.

“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 added.

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Pakistan has passed a crucial milestone on the road to environmental protection by meeting the overarching @UN Sustainable Development Goal 13, which calls for urgent actions to combat #ClimateChange and its impacts, 10 years ahead of the deadline, reveals the UN SDG Report 2020. pic.twitter.com/SE9fnyATLa

— Ministry of Climate Change, Govt of Pakistan (@ClimateChangePK) July 13, 2020

Pakistan is widely known as the country most vulnerable to climate change, yet it has proven to be responsible by completing the goal UN set for it even 10 years before the deadline.

Malik Amin said adoption and implementation of different low carbon growth trajectory, mitigation, and adaptation initiatives paved the way for the country to achieve the UN’s Climate Action Goal 13 and that, too, 10 years before the deadline.

Pakistan achieved UN climate action goal 10 years before deadline

Pakistan has taken various initiatives for large scale afforestation, biodiversity conservation, and it has also started investing in green jobs, electric vehicles along with clean energy to control climate change and protect the ecosystem.

“Global heating is disrupting not only national economies and affecting lives and livelihoods of people and countries dearly today and even more tomorrow. Because of the soaring climate-altering carbon emissions globally, people and communities are experiencing the significant impacts of human-caused climate change including rapidly changing weather patterns, rising sea level, heat waves, droughts, expanding desertification, forest fires, cyclones, unseasonal rains, and torrential floods,” said Malik Amin.

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A few of the projects that have led to Pakistan achieving its goal 10 years before including 10 Billion Tree Tsunami Program, Clean Green Pakistan Initiative, Clean Green Pakistan Index, and Protected Areas Initiative (15 new national parks).

All these initiatives have been taken in order to prevent climate change disasters such as floods, droughts, and glaciers such as Siachen melting in the near future.

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We all know that we live in a time where carbon emissions are the highest they have ever been and the population is also increasing. With such rapid changes, the world is predicted to experience drastic life-threatening changes.

Like Pakistan, other countries should also follow the instructions given to them by the UN and achieve their goals.

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