ISLAMABAD: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his address to the 76th United Nations General Assembly session called the entire world community for following the example of his Pakistani counterpart, Imran Khan, to plant ten billion trees.
Ministry of Climate Change on its Twitter handle shared a short video clip of the British premier’s speech where he extended his appreciation to Prime Minister Imran Khan’s massive afforestation initiative launched across the country.
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“We are going to plant millions of trees in the UK but I was blown away. I would like to invite everybody to follow example of Imran Khan who has pledged to plant ten billion trees in Pakistan alone. He is going so,” the British PM said.
He added that it was important that the developed world recognize its obligation to help less developed countries down this path in these technologies (to cope with climate change).
Amid the metaphors, the British leader made a series of calls for action to the UN member states, including:
- to restrain the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees;
- to pledge collectively to achieve carbon neutrality – net zero;
- all countries to step up and commit to very substantial carbon reductions by 2030;
- the developing world to end the use of coal power by 2040 and the developed world to do so by 2030;
- China to phase out the domestic use of coal;
- only zero-emission vehicles to be on sale across the world by 2040;
- every country to cut carbon by 68%;
- to halt and reverse the loss of trees and biodiversity by 2030;
- all nations to follow the example of Prime Minister Imran Khan to plant 10 billion trees, and,
- governments to work with financial institutions – the IMF and the World Bank – to leverage trillions of dollars in the private sector.
“We started this industrial revolution in Britain: we were the first to send the great puffs of acrid smoke to the heavens on a scale to derange the natural order,” the British Prime Minister underscored in his speech.
