Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, has urged federal and provincial government departments of the country to hammer out projects, which can help boost clean development and make the current trajectory of economic growth environmental-friendly and sustainable.
Addressing an inaugural ceremony of the three-day national training programme on clean development here on Wednesday, the minister told the participants, “Policymakers and planners need to make development plans in different socio-economic sectors, particularly agriculture, energy, water, industry and transport at federal and provincial levels. For, such projects would help achieve sustainable development goals and check environmental degradation, which costs nearly US $600 annually to the national exchequer.”
The capacity-building programme ‘National Training for Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Assessment for PC-I of Public Sector Projects was organised by the climate change ministry to build the capacity and create awareness among all relevant stakeholders from both government and non-governmental sectors for CDM project assessment and implementation in the country as well as impart skills to them so that the public sector officials in planning and environmental departments are able to conduct CDM project assessment by setting up CDM assessment units at federal and provincial levels for identification and assessment of the public sector CDM projects.
The federal minister told the participants that being a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol the country is eligible for international technical and financial assistance available under the CDM to fund federal and provincial projects in different socio-economic sectors, which are can boost clean and environmental-friendly development in the country.
The Kyoto Protocol treaty was negotiated in December 1997 at the city of Kyoto, Japan and came into force February 16, 2005.