Advancing Pakistan’s Climate Resilience by Catalyzing Innovative SDGs Financing
Advancing Pakistan Climate Resilience by Catalyzing Innovative SDGs Financing
Ambassador Munir Akram Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN.
Excellencies, colleagues, participants, I would begin by thanking UN-DESA and UNDP for organising this side event focused on catalyzing Innovative SDGs financing for advancing Pakistan’s Climate Resilience.
The Government of Pakistan is wholly committed to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its goals.
However, due to a disrupted growth trajectory, the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing food, fuel and finance crisis and the catastrophic floods of 2022, our fiscal space for development expenditure has shrunk.
Pakistan’s annual financing gap for the SDGs stands at USD 3.72 billion for the period 2020-2030.
Compounding ...