Pakistan and Turkiye Pledge Strategic Partnership on Climate Resilience

Islamabad: Pakistan and Turkiye have pledged to forge a deeper strategic partnership on climate resilience, flood management, and water security. An understanding to this effect was reached during talks between a high-level Turkish delegation and senior Pakistani officials at the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination in Islamabad today.

According to Radio Pakistan, both countries also expressed a commitment to strengthen regional cooperation ahead of the high-stakes UN-led COP31 climate summit to be held in Antalya, Turkiye, in November this year. The 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP31, is expected to focus on the implementation of global climate commitments, adaptation financing, loss-and-damage support for vulnerable nations, and accelerated action on climate resilience in the face of worsening extreme weather events worldwide.