PM Imran Khan lauds two plantation drives announced by Saudi crown prince
ISLAMABAD (92 News) – Prime Minister Imran Khan has lauded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's 'Green Saudi Arabia' and 'Green Middle East' projects.
In a letter written to Mohammed Bin Salman, the prime minister highly commended the projects which will include the plantation of 10 billion trees in Saudi Arabia and 50 billion in the Middle East, the expansion of protected areas to more than 30 per cent, the protection of marine and coastal environments and the generation of 50pc of Saudi Arabia's energy from renewable sources.
Prime Minister @ImranKhanPTI, in his letter to Saudi Crown Prince H.E. Mohammad bin Salman, appreciates the launch of "Saudi Green Initiative" and "Green Middle East" initiative. The PM says that this vision aligns with #CleanGreenPakistan Initiative. pic.twitter.com/GaLUPll3Te
— Prime Minister's Office, Pakistan (@PakPMO) March 29, 2021
Prime Minister Imran said that the Saudi initiatives were like 'Clean and Green Pakistan' and '10 Billion Tree Tsunami' launched by his government.
"After successfully planting one billion trees from 2014-2018, our TBTT initiative is well underway across the whole country. We are also expanding our protected areas — over 15pc land and 10pc marine area — by 2023," he said in the letter, adding that the initiatives had demonstrated that tree planting not only protected nature and restored ecosystems to fight climate change, but also expanded eco-tourism and created thousands of green jobs for the youth and local communities.
Pakistan is also committed to 'shifting our energy mix towards a clean and low carbon trajectory', said the letter. "We are targeting 60pc of our energy to be clean energy by 2030, which will require a major expansion of solar, wind and hydro power generation capacity in the country.
