Pakistan urges urgent grant-based climate finance at COP30

Web Desk: At COP30, Pakistan has called for rapid, grant-based and predictable financing for climate-vulnerable developing countries.

The appeal was made at a high-level side event titled “Operationalizing Loss and Damage: Financing Resilience and Recovery in Vulnerable Countries”, organized jointly by the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination and UNICEF at the Pakistan Pavilion during the UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil.

Pakistan warned that recurring climate disasters are worsening debt distress and undermining development gains in nations that have contributed least to global emissions.

Secretary for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Aisha Humera Moriani, in her keynote address, said Pakistan is investing heavily in strengthening national resilience despite contributing less than one per cent to global greenhouse gas emissions.