PM Shehbaz urges grant-based climate finance, warns against 'weaponising water'
- On Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressed the COP31 Leaders' Summit in Antalya, Turkiye, urging grant-based climate financing for vulnerable nations to prevent deepening debt during disasters.
- Reflecting on Pakistan's devastating 2022 floods, Shehbaz recalled that one-third of the country was submerged, affecting approximately 33 million people and causing economic losses exceeding $30 billion.
- Pakistan is leading by example in clean energy, with sources now accounting for nearly 55% of the energy mix and more than 20 gigawatts of distributed solar capacity added in two years.
- Sharif warned against "weaponising water," stressing that no nation should risk the lives of people downstream and that water sharing agreements must be honoured.
- Few breakthroughs are anticipated at the COP31 negotiations, which run until November 20, amid geopolitical tensions, while Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned governments cannot continue expanding fossil fuel production.
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