Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called for more financing to sustain Pakistan’s clean-energy transition at COP31, citing separate needs for low-carbon power and replacing coal with solar, Anadolu Agency reported.
Sharif spoke at a high-level meeting on the sidelines of COP31, the U.N. climate summit in Antalya, Türkiye. He put Pakistan’s financing need for low-carbon power generation at about $138 billion by 2035. Replacing coal with solar would require another $50 billion, he said.
He put rooftop solar additions at nearly 22 GW over two years, and said clean sources supply nearly 55% of the energy mix as nuclear power expands.
The country’s new Auto Policy aims for electric vehicles to make up 30% of new vehicles by 2030, Sharif said. He urged leaders to “power our economies without impoverishing our people.”
