Pakistan will plant 10 billion trees in three years: PM

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Pakistan will plant 10 billion trees in three years: PM​

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has told the world leaders that Pakistan has decided to have nature-based solutions to mitigate impacts of climate change by planting 10 billion trees across the country in the next three years.

“Secondly, we have increased the number of national parks and forest areas from 30 to 45,” PM Khan said at the virtual Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on Saturday.

Co-hosted by the United Kingdom, France, and the United Nations, in partnership with Chile and Italy, the Climate Ambition Summit represents a vital step on the road to next year’s COP26, providing an opportunity for countries to set an agenda for 2021. The summit has brought together the leaders who were ready to make new commitments to tackle climate change and deliver on the Paris Agreement, five years since it was adopted on December 12, 2015.

In his address, Prime Minister Khan said that Pakistan is a country with less than one per cent contributions to global emissions, but “sadly, we are the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change.”
“At the same time, we have decided that we will not have any more power based on coal [burning]. We have already scrapped two coal power projects, which were supposed to produce 2,600 megawatts of energy and replaced it with hydro-electricity. We will produce energy either by coal to liquid or coal to gas so that we do not have to burn coal to produce energy,” he explained.

He informed the world leaders that Pakistan had also decided that by 2030, 60 per cent energy produced in Pakistan would be clean energy through renewables. “Also, 30 per cent of vehicles in Pakistan will be electric powered,” he said before committing that Pakistan would be doing “its best to make its contributions to mitigate the effects of climate change”.

The summit also marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, the groundbreaking international commitment to climate action that set an overall ambition for the world to be no warmer than 1.5 degrees Centigrade above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100.

Being part of the Paris Agreement means governments have to set targets called “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs), which determine, among other things, how fast they are going to cut carbon emissions.

At the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, countries will set out new and ambitious commitments under the three pillars of the Paris Agreement such as mitigation, adaptation and finance commitments.

Published in Dawn, December 13th, 2020

Pakistan will plant 10 billion trees in three years: PM

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has told the world leaders that Pakistan has decided to have nature-based...

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[Saithan]

Pakistan will plant 10 billion trees in three years: PM​

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has told the world leaders that Pakistan has decided to have nature-based solutions to mitigate impacts of climate change by planting 10 billion trees across the country in the next three years.

“Secondly, we have increased the number of national parks and forest areas from 30 to 45,” PM Khan said at the virtual Climate Ambition Summit 2020 on Saturday.

Co-hosted by the United Kingdom, France, and the United Nations, in partnership with Chile and Italy, the Climate Ambition Summit represents a vital step on the road to next year’s COP26, providing an opportunity for countries to set an agenda for 2021. The summit has brought together the leaders who were ready to make new commitments to tackle climate change and deliver on the Paris Agreement, five years since it was adopted on December 12, 2015.

In his address, Prime Minister Khan said that Pakistan is a country with less than one per cent contributions to global emissions, but “sadly, we are the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change.”
“At the same time, we have decided that we will not have any more power based on coal [burning]. We have already scrapped two coal power projects, which were supposed to produce 2,600 megawatts of energy and replaced it with hydro-electricity. We will produce energy either by coal to liquid or coal to gas so that we do not have to burn coal to produce energy,” he explained.

He informed the world leaders that Pakistan had also decided that by 2030, 60 per cent energy produced in Pakistan would be clean energy through renewables. “Also, 30 per cent of vehicles in Pakistan will be electric powered,” he said before committing that Pakistan would be doing “its best to make its contributions to mitigate the effects of climate change”.

The summit also marks the fifth anniversary of the Paris Climate Agreement, the groundbreaking international commitment to climate action that set an overall ambition for the world to be no warmer than 1.5 degrees Centigrade above pre-industrial temperatures by 2100.

Being part of the Paris Agreement means governments have to set targets called “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs), which determine, among other things, how fast they are going to cut carbon emissions.

At the Climate Ambition Summit 2020, countries will set out new and ambitious commitments under the three pillars of the Paris Agreement such as mitigation, adaptation and finance commitments.

Published in Dawn, December 13th, 2020

Pakistan will plant 10 billion trees in three years: PM

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Get drones to do that. I hope Pakistan has factories to support the electric vehicle target.

Solar panels, insulation on buildings, inquisition like beureau to monitor the implementation of these things.

 

[Initial_D]

I hope they planted fruitful tree like date fruit, bread fruit, olive tree, dragon fruit etc so the people's of pakistan can ripe the benefits of the tree without using them as firewood

 

[VCheng]

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has told the world leaders that Pakistan has decided to have nature-based solutions to mitigate impacts of climate change by planting 10 billion trees across the country in the next three years.

That is a rate of about 5.5 million trees per day if working 12 hours a day every day, or about 126 planted saplings per second.

 

[Madokafc]

They need at least 7 to 8 million hectar of area to plant those 10 Billion trees.

 

[Timur]

make school programs every kid plant every year 10 trees and waters them for a while..

every house owner has to plant some trees

plant trees on the side of roads, do not only plant trees plant some flowers and so on for bees and other insects..

every city with 15 k people should have someone looking for the forests.. educate him on this and let him plan a healthy forest..

plant in some areas wood for commercial use and some areas dont touch it..

you should maybe have some useful benifitial trees like wallnut tree chest nuts apples and oak trees for animals

people cutting trees should be punished and the money goes to the one who found it out like policemen, forester and so on.. if they can earn some extra bucks they wont close their eyes.. also hang in there some information that this area is planted by little children maybe this can prevent or just move a thing in the heart of some people not to destroy the work of children

 

[Saithan]

That is a rate of about 5.5 million trees per day if working 12 hours a day every day, or about 126 planted saplings per second.

Drones can plant thousands of trees in a single day.

Just need enough of them and you can plant strategically and with few human ressources

 

[Timur]

Drones can plant thousands of trees in a single day.

Just need enough of them and you can plant strategically and with few human ressources

a god concept but:

this is for areas with water.. on areas like inner anatolia this is not really gonna work.. sometimes 3 month with no real rain is too much..

for germany this could be helpfull we have rain in masses.. but turkey or pakistan I do not know..

 

[Saithan]

a god concept but:

this is for areas with water.. on areas like inner anatolia this is not really gonna work.. sometimes 3 month with no real rain is too much..

for germany this could be helpfull we have rain in masses.. but turkey or pakistan I do not know..

That was just one example. There are several different drone and seed planting out there some with seed+container with pesticides/ferrilizers etc.

Tree Planting Drone can plant 100,00 Trees in one day - ARPAS UK

There is no doubt that technology is the biggest contributor to climate change but it also can act as a survivor when used in a pro-environmental manner. Yes, you read it right! British Engineers have created a tree-planting drone that can plant 100,000 trees in one day. Biocarbon Engineering, a...

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100.000 a day!

 

[VCheng]

Drones can plant thousands of trees in a single day.

Just need enough of them and you can plant strategically and with few human ressources

That is great! Now let us see how this plan is actually implemented and how many tree are grown as a result.