Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is currently addressing the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP29, that is being held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
The premier is presenting Pakistan’s case at the two-day World Leaders Climate Action Summit.
“My memories are still fresh,” PM Shehbaz said, as he recalled meeting flood affectees in Balochistan, including a boy named Ikramullah who had “lost everything”.
“His entire village was erased from the face of the earth, his home was completely demolished, and his school was also submerged. And we had arranged his education to another part of Pakistan,” he said.
The prime minister asserted that COP29 should “make this understanding loud and clear that we will have to fulfil those financial pledges” committed at COP27 and COP28.
“And yet, I think, those huge financial commitments have to be materialised.”
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