Pakistan committed to environment-friendly energy: Khurram Dastgir

ISLAMABAD: Khurram Dastgir, Pakistan’s Minister for Power Division, stated on Wednesday that the country was committed to producing environmentally friendly energy and that an ambitious goal had been set to increase the share of renewable energy (RE) to 60% of the total country’s energy mix by 2030.

According to a statement we received from Bangkok, he claimed that Pakistan was making rapid economic progress in his speech at the Future Energy Conference Conference 2023. He claimed that the proportion of environmentally friendly energy in Pakistan’s overall energy mix had increased to over 6%. According to him, the government also intended to switch to 30% electric vehicles by 2030. He claimed that by 2030, all imports of coal would be prohibited.

National Electricity Policy 2021 envisaged to meet the energy needs through local indigenous resources, he added.

He said although Pakistan share in environmental pollution was very minimum but badly affected due to climate change.

Pakistan was paying special attention to the generate power through solar and wind, he added.