This Act, consisting of 19 sections divided into five Chapters and one Schedule, establishes the requirements to meet Pakistan's obligations under international conventions relating to climate change and address the effects of climate change. The Act is divided as follows: Preliminary (Chap. I); Pakistan Climate Change Council (Chap. II); Pakistan Climate Change Authority (Chap. III); Pakistan Climate Change Fund (Chap. IV); Miscellaneous (Chap. V). The Prime Minister shall, by notification in the official Gazette, establish the above mentioned institutions to: co-ordinate and supervise enforcement of the provisions of this Act; monitor implementation of international agreements relating to climate change specified in the Schedule; coordinate, supervise and guide mainstreaming of climate change concerns into decision-making by Federal and Provincial Government's ministries, divisions, departments and agencies so as to create enabling conditions for integrated climate-compatible and climate-resilient development processes in various sectors of the economy; approve and monitor implementation of comprehensive adaptation and mitigation policies, strategies, plans programmes, projects and other measures formulated by the Authority to meet Pakistan's obligations under international conventions and agreements relating to climate change including in particular the Sustainable Development Goal I; monitor implementation of the National Adaptation Plan and its constituent provincial and local adaptation action plans, the National Appropriate Mitigation Action Framework and National Communication submitted to the concerned Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), etc.
巴基斯坦 · 2017-03-31