President Zardari holds a meeting with Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan’s minister of ecology and natural resources and COP29 president-designate. This primarily highlights the importance of environmental conservation, especially in the context of Pakistan. The President specified that in order for certain measures to yield benefits, it is vital that global efforts are made.
Azerbaijan is involved in this particular matter first-hand because they won the bidding to host the 29th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29). The conference is scheduled in November, in Baku. Mr. Babayev correspondingly had embarked on the trip to invite President Asif Ali Zardari. The president, first and foremost, expressed his aspirations of the conference setting a New Collective Quantified Goal on Finance that would assist the investment in green revolution for developing countries. Alongside this, he shed light on some previous efforts in Pakistan. For example, the plantation of mangroves to restore the wildlife diversity of this habitat. Additionlly, President Zardari and Mr. Babayev both stressed on the notion of strengthening bilateral relations in areas of common interest.
This eager attitude of the President highlights that the nation prioritizes green revolution to a great degree. In light of the recent flash floods in Afghanistan and the monsoon, heatwave predictions for Pakistan, the necessity to act becomes more pressing.