Pakistan has pressed the UN climate leadership for a major scale-up in global climate finance and stronger support for adaptation, as senior officials met on the sidelines of the COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil.
\nIn a bilateral meeting with the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, Pakistan\u2019s head of delegation and Secretary for Climate Change, Aisha Humera Chaudhry, set out the country\u2019s updated climate commitments and warned that progress under the Paris Agreement risked stalling without substantial financial backing for vulnerable nations.
\nAisha briefed Stiell on Pakistan\u2019s newly submitted Third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC 3.0), a revised roadmap laying out the country\u2019s emissions-reduction pathway to 2035.
\nThe updated plan includes an increase in Pakistan\u2019s domestically financed mitigation contribution, rising from 15% to 17%, while reiterating that half of the targeted emissions cuts depend on international assistance.
\nShe said Pakistan would require an estimated US$565bn by 2035 to deliver its full climate ambitions, arguing that previous pledges had not materialised at the scale promised.
\n\u201cWe are meeting our reporting obligations and submitting our NDCs and transparency reports on time,\u201d she said, \u201cbut delivery on commitments from developed countries remains far below expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Secretary underscored that adaptation must be elevated to equal footing with mitigation, particularly for states already grappling with worsening climate shocks. Even a tripling of adaptation finance, she cautioned, \u201cwould not close the gap, given how low the current baseline is\u201d.
\nCalling for additional, grant-based funding to support national adaptation plans and resilience programmes, Aisha urged the UNFCCC to ensure financial mechanisms \u2014 including the Loss and Damage Fund \u2014 respond more effectively to developing-country needs.
\nShe also highlighted Pakistan\u2019s fragile mountain ecosystems and the accelerating risks posed by melting glaciers across the Hindukush, Karakoram and Himalayan ranges.
\nPakistan, she said, is working to draw global attention to threats to the cryosphere and has hosted a high-level event at COP30 on the issue.
\nShe invited UNFCCC leadership to next year\u2019s Cross-Regional Glacier Resilience Summit in Pakistan.
\nStiell welcomed Pakistan\u2019s timely updates to its NDCs and sought clarity on its expectations from the ongoing summit.
\nThe meeting also touched on Pakistan\u2019s collaboration with the NDC Partnership, which is supporting efforts to implement national climate targets.
\nThe devastation caused by the 2025 floods and repeated glacial lake outburst events, Aisha noted, illustrated the scale of the challenge \u2014 and the urgency of global action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pakistan has pressed the UN climate leadership for a major scale-up in global climate finance and stronger support for adaptation, as senior officials met on the sidelines of the COP30 summit in Belem, Brazil. In a bilateral meeting with the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, Pakistan\u2019s head of delegation and Secretary for Climate Change, Aisha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-515401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n