Pakistan will shift to 60pc clean energy by 2030, world assured
WASHINGTON: Pakistan assured the international community on Thursday that it might shift to 60 per cent clean energy and 30pc electric vehicle use by 2030.
Addressing the US-initiated Leaders Summit in Washington, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on global climate change Malik Amin Aslam also urged developed nations to fulfil their commitment to assist others make this transition from carbon-based to wash energy.
“We have committed ourselves to 60pc clean energy and 30pc electric vehicle transition by 2030. So, Pakistan is clearly doing quite its share for the global climate change issue,” he said.
“Now, the planet must do more on climate finance. It must deliver climate finance for countries in energy transition, for countries who got to adapt, like Pakistan,” Mr Aslam added. “It must honour the commitment of $100 billion a year” to the present cause, as promised.
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Leaders from 40 countries are attending this two-day virtual summit, which started on Earth Day with big pledges from the world’s major carbon emitters, China, the US, India and Russia.
US President Biden, who is hosting this two-day virtual summit, made the most important pledge — promising to chop his country’s carbon emissions by 50 to 52pc from 2005 levels.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga raised Japan’s target for cutting emissions to 46pc by 2030, up from 26pc.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to scale back his country’s emissions by 40 to 45pc by 2030 below 2005 levels, up from 30pc.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China expects its carbon emissions to peak before 2030 and therefore the country will achieve net zero emissions by 2060.
Russian President Putin proposed giving preferential treatment for foreign investment in clean energy projects, but also blamed the US for the climate crisis. “It is not any secret that the conditions that facilitated heating and associated problems go way back,” he said.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he and President Biden were launching the India-US Climate and Clean Energy Agenda 2030 partnership to “help mobilise investments, demonstrate clean technologies, and enable green collaborations”.
Later, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack invited Pakistan’s representative, Mr Aslam, to share with the planet what a water-stressed country like Pakistan was doing to manage its water resources.
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Mr Aslam acknowledged that Pakistan contributes but 1pc to global emissions, yet it’s one among top 10 on the list of most vulnerable countries due to its topography and geography.
“We face the Himalayan glaciers which are melting within the north, the arid zones which are becoming heat waves like never before, cyclones within the south and rising sea levels and floods within the plains,” he said.
The Pakistani representative informed the planet that in recent years the frequency and intensity of those disasters had gone up, affecting 220 million people. “So, Pakistan is basically at the forefront of this climate disaster,” he said.
Pakistan, he said, was a robust and resilient nation and was doing its best to deal with this disaster. “We are planting 10bn trees and restoring nearly 1m hectares of forests, including the mangroves within the south,” he said. “Pakistan is that the only country within the world with an increasing mangrove cover.”
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