Islamabad (TDI) : Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Climate Change, Romina Khurshid Alam has reiterated Pakistan’s commitment to boost regional collaboration among the Vulnerable Twenty Group, representing 70 countries from the most climate-vulnerable regions.
During a meeting with representatives of the V20 member countries, she said establishing the proposed data bank would be indeed a ground-breaking initiative to consolidate data on climate risks, economic losses and financial resilience-building needs of the member countries.
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Romina committed full support to set up V20 Climate Action Data Bank, she proposed during a recent high-level meeting with representatives of the V20 member countries.
She said that Pakistan is willing to play the lead role in mobilising V20 group member countries to set up the crucial data bank.
According to her this centralised platform would aim to empower V20 nations to effectively cope with adverse fallouts of climate change by providing the critical evidence-based information needed for informed decision-making.
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It can make resource mobilization from available climate regional and international funding channels easy for the result-oriented climate actions through adaptation and mitigation efforts.
