{"id":1590,"date":"2021-10-13T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2021-10-13T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T12:53:01","slug":"pakistan-approves-national-climate-change-wildlife-policy-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/paksitan\/pakistan-approves-national-climate-change-wildlife-policy-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan approves National Climate Change, Wildlife Policy 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>World acknowledges Country&#8217;s realistic approach to mitigate impacts of climate change, says PM Khan<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ISLAMABAD, Oct 13 (Asia Free Press): Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday &#8216;approved&#8217; the National Climate Change Policy 2021 and National Wildlife Policy 2021 to counter environmental issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement issued from his office, Khan approved the policy during the 3rd meeting of the Committee on Climate Change in Islamabad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister directed the establishment of a think tank to coordinate efforts between various ministries and devise out-of-box solutions for climate change mitigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also directed that a particular zone in Margalla Hills be declared as a leopard preservation zone. He also approved the establishment of the Wildlife Information Center at Islamabad&#8217;s Marghazar Zoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistani premier said that his Country established its credibility as a Green Champion due to its flagship ten billion tree program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It was our government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which undertook the initiative of one billion tree tsunami, and now the whole world is following our footsteps,&#8221; he said and adding that the international community is acknowledging Pakistan&#8217;s realistic and tangible steps to mitigate impacts of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier During his speech at the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Boris Johnson acknowledged Pakistan&#8217;s efforts and said, &#8220;I invite everybody to follow the example of Imran Khan of Pakistan who has pledged to plant 10 billion trees.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imran khan insisted that the world must help developing countries to deal with the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Climate Change to review targets and formulate new goals to fast-track the steps required to preserve the natural environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the preservation of Pakistan&#8217;s National Parks is of paramount importance.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World acknowledges Country&#8217;s realistic approach to mitigate impacts of climate change, says PM Khan ISLAMABAD, Oct 13 (Asia Free Press): Pakistan&#8217;s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday &#8216;approved&#8217; the National Climate Change Policy 2021 and National Wildlife Policy 2021 to counter environmental issues. According to a statement issued from his office, Khan approved the policy [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,82],"tags":[535,134,65,773,772],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-paksitan","tag-climate-change","tag-imran-khan","tag-pakistan","tag-policy-2021","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}