{"id":15730,"date":"2020-07-14T11:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=15730"},"modified":"2020-07-14T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T06:44:53","slug":"pakistan-achieves-global-climate-change-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/15730","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan achieves global climate change target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI, Pakistan\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan has achieved the UN Sustainable Development Goal for protecting the environment and holding off climate change a decade before the deadline, the UN Development Program (UNDP) and Pakistan\u2019s Climate Change Ministry said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With technical support from UNDP, Pakistan has achieved SDG13 well before the 2030 deadline,&#8221; the UN Development Program said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UNDP in Pakistan, and Ministry of Climate Change celebrate the achievement of Earth globe SDG13, and our longstanding strategic partnership,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, the ministry said, &#8220;Pakistan has achieved a crucial milestone on the road to environmental protection by meeting the overarching United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13,&#8221; under the \u201cclean-green\u201d Pakistan vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>In line with Khan&#8217;s &#8220;Billion Tree Tsunami&#8221; and clean-green Pakistan programs, it added, Pakistan has achieved this target, which proves its seriousness towards worldwide efforts to tackle the climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan launched the &#8220;Billion Tree Tsunami&#8221; program in 2014 in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province in an effort to restore the province\u2019s depleted forests and fight the effects of global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The reforestation project was extended to the rest of Pakistan after Khan&#8217;s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf came into power in 2018. Under the program, the government plans to plant 10 billion trees across Pakistan by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Following decades of cutting and natural calamities, the country&#8217;s total forest cover ranges between 2% and 5%, well below the 12% recommended by the UN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI, Pakistan\u00a0 Pakistan has achieved the UN Sustainable Development Goal for protecting the environment and holding off climate change a decade before the deadline, the UN Development Program (UNDP) and Pakistan\u2019s Climate Change Ministry said Monday. &#8220;With technical support from UNDP, Pakistan has achieved SDG13 well before the 2030 deadline,&#8221; the UN Development Program said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15732,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15730\/revisions\/15732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}