Climate and Development Outlook

The document details CDKN's contributions to Pakistan's climate resilience and low-carbon transition, highlighting a solar PV project in Sialkot, the development of a national disaster-risk insurance framework, and a suite of 50 low-cost actions to reduce annual emissions by 100 megatons by 2030.

• Pakistan aims to decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions to follow a low-carbon pathway aligned with its Vision 2025, the SDGs, and its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the UNFCCC.
• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are presented as a critical framework for addressing Pakistan's challenges in development, democracy, and defence, with failure to meet targets viewed as a non-traditional threat to national security.
• A pre-feasibility assessment for Sialkot City found that solar rooftop photovoltaic (PV) panels are the most viable renewable energy option for SMEs to mitigate electricity shortages; such a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) could mitigate up to 377,000 tons of carbon dioxide and save SMEs an average of US$27,400 annually on electricity.
• The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), supported by CDKN and the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative, has developed a disaster-risk insurance framework to provide low-income households with affordable insurance, shifting away from a case-by-case disaster-response model.
• The Asian Development Bank is supporting the establishment of a National Disaster Management Fund with expected seed funding of US$1 billion, which may include a window for risk transfer instruments like the proposed insurance fund.
• The Low Carbon Scenarios project identified approximately 50 low-cost, short-term actions across energy, agriculture, industry, forestry, transport, and waste sectors that could reduce Pakistan's annual emissions by as much as 100 megatons by 2030.

APA

Gass, P., Khalid, B., Osornio, J. P., & Sheikh, A. T. (2017). Climate and Development Outlook. Climate and Development Knowledge Network. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/PAKISTAN_Outlook_WEB-final.pdf

Chicago

Gass, Philip, Bilal Khalid, Juan Pablo Osornio, and Ali Tauqeer Sheikh. Climate and Development Outlook. Climate and Development Knowledge Network, 2017. https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/PAKISTAN_Outlook_WEB-final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{gass2017climate, author = {Gass, Philip and Khalid, Bilal and Osornio, Juan Pablo and Sheikh, Ali Tauqeer}, title = {{Climate and Development Outlook}}, institution = {Climate and Development Knowledge Network}, year = {2017}, month = feb, url = {https://cdkn.org/sites/default/files/files/PAKISTAN_Outlook_WEB-final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }