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Pakistan on Thursday informed the international community that it is aiming to boost electric vehicle adoption to 30 percent by 2030 as part of measures to combat climate change.
“We have committed ourselves to 60 percent clean energy and 30 percent electric vehicle transition by 2030,”
Special Assistant to the P.M. on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam told a U.S.-initiated Leaders’ Summit via video-link. “So, Pakistan is clearly doing more than its share for the climate change issue,” he added.
In his address, Aslam also urged developed nations to “do more” and fulfil their commitment to help the developing world transition from carbon-based to clean energy. “Now, the world needs to do more on climate finance. It needs to deliver climate finance for countries in energy transition, for countries who need to adapt, like Pakistan,” he said. “It needs to honor the commitment of $100 billion a year” to this cause, he added, referring to a pledge of [...]
What is ClimateChange? Climate change includes both the global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century the rate of human impact on Earth's climate system and the
global scale of that impact have been unprecedented.
What is Pakistan? Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country with a population exceeding 212.2 million. It has the world's second-largest Muslim population. It is the 33rd-largest country by area, spanning 881,913 square kilometres
(340,509 square miles). Pakistan has a 1,046-kilometre (650-mile) coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by India to the east, Afghanistan to the west, Iran to the southwest, and China to the northeast.
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