ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Germany have agreed to deepen cooperation under the Pakistan-Germany Climate and Energy Partnership, with Berlin committing €114 million ($122 million) in new financial and technical support for the current fiscal year, Radio Pakistan reported this week.
Pakistan has identified climate resilience, clean energy transition and social protection as key national priorities as the country recovers from successive climate shocks, including the devastating 2022 floods that affected over 33 million people and floods this year that killed over 1,000 people and devastated millions of acres of farmland. The country is ranked among the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations despite contributing less than one percent to global greenhouse gas emissions.
The new commitment was announced during delegation-level talks in Islamabad between Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Muhammad Humair Karim and Christine Toetzke, Director-General at Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The German delegation “announced a new financial and technical commitment to the tune of 114 million Euros for current fiscal year,” according to a summary of the discussions published by state broadcaster Radio Pakistan.
