Collaboration critical for building a climate resilient Pakistan: Sherry

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Collaboration critical for building a climate resilient Pakistan: Sherry
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman held meeting with delegation of country directors of international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) on panel of Pakistan Humanitarian Forum (PHF) as part of consultation for International Conference on Climate Resilient Pakistan, scheduled to be held in Geneva on January 9, 2023.

Minister said this high-level Conference aims to marshal international support for people and government of Pakistan to move forward on recovery as soon as possible after country went through world’s worst climate event in living memory.  She said plan to rehabilitate, recover and rebuild with resilience is urgent, but we face huge funding gap even for first order recovery needs, given that we are servicing rehabilitation and relief for 33 million people.

 Our costing of 16 billion dollars for reconstruction damaged infrastructure in flood-resilient mode is not enough to cover full climate resilience but we cannot wait, as another season of extreme weather could well hit us before we even begin rebuilding, she added. Rehman said, we are co-hosting an international climate resilient Pakistan conference where our objective will be to present Resilient Recovery, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Framework (4RF), comprising of plans and arrangements for post-floods’ recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction and forging long-term partnerships for building Pakistan’s climate resilience and adaptation.

Published in The Daily National Courier, January, 05 2023

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