ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Ahmed Irfan Aslam on Wednesday, while launching the NDRMF live web portal to COP28 related activities, said that Pakistan would focus on just energy transition at COP28 and its delegation at the largest environmental moot would hold discussions to enhance cooperation in the realm of energy transition.
A pre-COP28 event was organised by the Ministry of Climate Change and National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) to launch its dedicated website intended to share updates on various activities to be held at the international climate conference due in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12.
Caretaker Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Ahmed Irfan Aslam, UAE Ambassador to Pakistan Hamad Obaid Ibrahimi AlZaabi, and other senior officials attended the event.
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Caretaker Minister Ahmed Irfan Aslam inaugurated the website to live share the information of the COP28-related activities, the official news agency reported.
The website is developed by the Ministry of Climate Change and the National Disaster Risk Management Fund. The COP28 events will be streamed live on the website with daily information sharing on the website.
The NDRMF has also released a newsletter on COP28.
Ahmed Irfan Aslam said the issue of climate change needs to be acknowledged as the world needs to do more to tackle climate change. However, this event is a link to this series of interventions as Pakistan attaches importance to the issue of climate change.
He added that dependence on renewable energy resources has to be increased. “We must mobilise our resources for the global climate finance market,” he said.
World leaders will face a reckoning over humanity’s failure to curb climate-heating emissions and polluting fossil fuels when they meet for UN climate talks next week, as the planet swelters in likely the hottest year in human history.
Pope Francis, King Charles III, political leaders, activists and lobbyists will be among the more than 70,000 visitors expected for the COP28 meeting in the United Arab Emirates, making it the largest UN climate change conference ever held.
