{"id":30522,"date":"2023-11-15T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=30522"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:54:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:54:14","slug":"british-high-commissions-director-development-calls-on-planning-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/30522","title":{"rendered":"British high commission\u2019s director development calls on planning minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad: A two-member delegation led by Jo Moir, Director of Development at British High Commission Islamabad called on the caretaker minister for planning development &amp; special initiatives, Mohammad Sami Saeed on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two sides exchanged views on the existing portfolio for Pakistan and expressed their resolve to further enhance in the future.<br \/>\nThe Planning Minister highlighted a National Climate Finance Strategy (NCFS) which has been prepared to identify sectoral priorities and scale climate finance.<\/p>\n<p>He also highlighted the newly\u2013established Sustainable Finance Bureau (SFB) to revolutionize climate finance. He said that Pakistan is among the countries in the world that are most affected by weather\/climate-related hazards such as floods, landslides, droughts, heat waves, extreme cold, and cyclones, etc. He said that Pakistan has already geared up the efforts to cope with such a huge challenge as the planning ministry has taken the lead in establishing an NCFS and Climate Responsive Public Investment Framework.<\/p>\n<p>The Planning Minister appreciated the support of BHC for its decades-long assistance, which has been playing a vital role in the socio-economic uplift of Pakistan. He also appreciated their continued support and commitment for the ongoing development projects, particularly in the climate sector.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Moir appreciated the steps taken by the planning ministry and assured their full support in the future. She reaffirmed the UK&#8217;s commitment to supporting Pakistan in its journey toward climate resilience and sustainable development. The UK has been actively involved in addressing the climate challenges which are being faced by Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: A two-member delegation led by Jo Moir, Director of Development at British High Commission Islamabad called on the caretaker minister for planning development &amp; special initiatives, Mohammad Sami Saeed on Tuesday. The two sides exchanged views on the existing portfolio for Pakistan and expressed their resolve to further enhance in the future. The Planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-pakistan","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522","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=30522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30524,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30522\/revisions\/30524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}