According to the prime minister’s adviser, Pakistan wants to employ 40,000 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2050.
ISLAMABAD: Malik Amin Aslam, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Climate Change, said on Saturday that Pakistan intended to adapt to a zero-carbon energy target by 2050 by using all sorts of renewable and low-carbon energy sources.
This he declared during an international webinar in Islamabad on “Nuclear Energy: a Critical Component of a Net Zero (Green) Future”.
The PM’s assistant said that the government plans to use 40,000 megawatts of nuclear energy by 2050 and to use wind, hydro, solar, and nuclear resources to the fullest in order to meet the goals set by the Conference of the Parties-26 in Glasgow, Scotland, recently.
Sindh Chief Minister Murad asks Dutch companies to establish “waste-to-energy” projects in Karachi.
Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah made the request on February 25. He asked leading Dutch companies to build waste-to-energy projects in Karachi and clean up Manchhar with the help of new technology.
He made the remarks at a meeting at the CM House in Karachi with Ambassador of the Netherlands Willem Wouter Plomp, Advisor to the CM on Trade Hammad Raza, and his trade counsellor, Yasir Farooqui.
The visiting ambassador informed the chief minister that their firms were interested in investing in and creating Karachi’s “waste-to-energy” project. “We have one of the world’s leading waste-to-energy firms,” he said.
