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Keeping the Climate Conversation on Track: The UK Marks King Charles III바카라 사이트™s Birthday with Climate Themed Event

On Tuesday 14 November, the British High Commission in Islamabad hosted the first 바카라 사이트˜King바카라 사이트™s Birthday Party바카라 사이트™ since 1951, marking His Majesty, King Charles III바카라 사이트™s 75th birthday. Utilised as a 바카라 사이트˜national day바카라 사이트™ by the UK, the event had an environment and climate change theme. This was reflective of both the King바카라 사이트™s interests and the high priority given to this work by the UK.

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British High Commission Islamabad and British Deputy High Commission Karachi
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15 November 2023
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Keeping the Climate Conversation on Track: The UK Marks King Charles III바카라 사이트™s Birthday with Climate Themed Event

Speaking to an audience of over 700 high profile attendees, including the Chief Guest Foreign Minister, Jalil Abbas Jilani, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Jane Marriott CMG OBE, outlined the depth of UK-Pakistani cooperation on the environment and climate change. Noting that since the 2022 floods, the UK has more than doubled investment in climate finance, and climate resilience and adaptation in Pakistan.

Jane Marriott also used the occasion to announce the start of two new climate related initiatives. This included the start of phase two of the UK바카라 사이트™s Climate Finance Accelerator Programme, which will see eight innovative Pakistani-based projects receive technical support to help them find private investment to tackle climate-related issues. As well as a new programme to expand a piloted AI-based 바카라 사이트˜Early Warning Forest Fire Detection System바카라 사이트™ to cover more forested areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well as the Federal Capital Territory, which will help protect lives, jobs, livelihoods and Pakistan바카라 사이트™s biodiversity.

UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott CMG OBE said the following:

With terrible conflicts occurring around the world, international focus on climate change is being tested. However, with COP28 just round the corner, and with time not on our side, it is essential that conversations and actions on climate change continue. We are utilising our King바카라 사이트™s Birthday Party 바카라 사이트“ the UK바카라 사이트™s National Day - events to do just this, with conversations ranging from how to build on Pakistan바카라 사이트™s negotiating success on a Loss and Damage Fund at COP27, to how Pakistan can safeguard its marine economy via the Commonwealth바카라 사이트™s Blue Charter.

Notes to editors:

  1. The King바카라 사이트™s Official Birthday is the selected day on which the birthday of the monarch is officially celebrated. It does not necessarily correspond to the date of the monarch바카라 사이트™s actual birth. Though in this case it does with King Charles turning 75 on the 14 November. The day is treated as the national day of the United Kingdom.
  2. This is the first King바카라 사이트™s Birthday Party since 1951 and the first time a UK monarch바카라 사이트™s birthday has been celebrated since the death of, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on 8 September 2022.
  3. The UK바카라 사이트™s Pakistan Network will celebrate the KBP with events in Islamabad (14 Nov), Lahore (16 Nov) and Karachi (17 Nov) 바카라 사이트“ all will be environment & climate themed.
  4. His Majesty the King바카라 사이트™s coronation occurred on Saturday, 6 May, 2023. The Coronation Ceremony was held at Westminster Abbey, London, and was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Ceremony saw His Majesty King Charles III crowned alongside The Queen Consort.
  5. Tackling the effects of Climate Change remains a priority for the UK. In September UK pledged $2 billion to the Green Climate Fund, (of which Pakistan is a beneficiary), the biggest single funding commitment the UK has made to help the world tackle climate change. Since 2011 UK climate aid spending has helped over 95m people cope with effects of climate change and reduced or avoided over 68m tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. This goes hand in hand with UK바카라 사이트™s domestic transition to clean forms of energy. UK has cut emissions faster than any G7 country. Low carbon sources now provide half of the UK바카라 사이트™s electricity.
  6. The UK is committed to working in partnership with Pakistan to improve climate resilience and address financing needs to tackle climate change. We are making good progress with wide ranging collaborative and innovative projects 바카라 사이트“ from our 5-year water governance programme which has improved the resilience of over 2 million people through nature-based interventions to the development of a Pakistan Climate Investment Fund which will mobilise private sector climate finance for projects that strengthen Pakistan바카라 사이트™s climate resilience.
  7. The UK is also making its voice heard in the multilateral system to influence environmental outcomes to benefit Pakistan. In the UAE at COP28, the UK will be tirelessly advocating to ensure that this COP delivers an outcome that puts the world on track to 1) keep temperature rise below 1.5C by halving global emissions by 2030, 2) build resilience to current and future climate impacts, and 3) halt and reverse global biodiversity loss 바카라 사이트“ by 2030.

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Published 15 November 2023