Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator
Mushahidullah Khan congratulated forest department on Pakistan electing as
bureau member of Forest Carbon Partnership Facility. He said we need to
increase forest cover to reduce carbon emission. Pakistan is facing serious
threats of Climate Change. It requires collective efforts to deal with issue.
Pakistan elected as Bureau member of Forest
Carbon Partnership Facility at the tenth Annual meeting of Participants
Committee held at Luang Prabang Laos DPR. Other bureau
members are USA and Tanzania.
The meeting is attended by sixty countries and
FCPF takes strategic decisions regarding funding awards to countries,
and capacity issues related to climate change and forests.
In his speech the Pak representative lauded
the role of SDPI'S group on RDD PLUS and LEAD Pakistan's all foresters
mailing list he also encouraged researchers to submit abstracts for the
forthcoming SDC.
Under overall leadership of Senator
Mushahidullah Khan who attended and addeeseex the REDD work group meeting
of all provinces in Islamabad prior to this high level meeting.
Pakistan's National Forst Policy 2017 and Climate
Change Authority was acknowledged by the FCPF management I their country
progress presentation.