A high-level six-member Pakistani delegation led by Prime Minister of Pakistan’s Coordinator Romina Khurshid Alam called on COP29 President and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev.

They discussed various matters of bilateral interests, including working together for common environmental sustainability and climate resilience building goals.

Speaking on the occasion, the Prime Minister’s climate aide particularly appreciated the COP29 presidency and congratulated him on behalf of Pakistani government for successful arrangement of the 29th Session of the Conference of Parties in Baku capital city, which is being attended by delegations from over 196 countries negotiating on matters related to climate finance, transfer of technology and capacity building.

The PM’s climate aide Romina Khurshid Alam also lauded participation of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister in the high-level Climate Finance RoundTable organized by Pakistan on 12th of this month, which was presided over by Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif at the COP29 venue in Baku.

She informed the COP29 president that Pakistan is among the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, despite contributing less than one percent to global greenhouse gas emissions. Its geography, economic dependencies, and limited adaptive capacity make it highly susceptible to the impacts of climate change.

Romina Khurshid also informed him that Pakistani delegation at COP29 is making all-out efforts to strengthen international partnerships with both developed and developing countries to push for enhanced global cooperation and collaboration on vital issues including transfer of climate finance, technology, technical know-how from global north to global south

She also informed that Pakistan will hold a conference of the Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) countries in the first quarter of next year to bring 68 member countries together to discuss share knowledge and experiences about common climate risks, their impacts and coping strategies and possible funding avenues to meet the growing climate finance needs to tackle climate change effects on agriculture, water, energy, infrastructure.

In his remarks, COP29 President Mukhtar Babayev thanked the PM’s coordinator on climate change Romina Khurshid Alam and assured his government’s all-out support and cooperation in tackling core climate risks in Pakistan and help build climate resilience of the people of Pakistan and their livelihoods.

Both the sides expressed hope that the rich countries would not leave this COP29 global climate talks inconclusive and commit as well as provide more money to meet climate finance needs of the developing countries.