ISLAMABAD: Following the successful achievement of the Bonn Challenge target by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government, the Chair of the KP Green Growth Initiative and IUCN Vice President and Regional Councillor, Malik Amin Aslam, Saturday announced that under the initiative another pledge of 250,000 hectares was made at the third international high-level roundtable held in March 2018 in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.
Malik Amin Aslam announced this on his return on March 24 after attending the third international high-level roundtable in Brazil.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had previously been a trailblazer by becoming not only the first sub-national entity to take up the pledge under the Bonn Challenge in 2014 but also became the first entity to successfully meet its pledge in 2017.
This new announcement also made Pakistan the first country in the world to renew its pledge.
The Bonn Challenge is a global forum aiming to restore 350 million hectares of global forests and has successfully attained 160 million hectares from 47 entities. The participants at the roundtable, including Germany and host Brazil, welcomed this renewed commitment by KP.
During the roundtable, the prominent restoration leaders from around the world moved the Bonn Challenge agenda into the next chapter along the path to its 350 million hectares restoration goal.
The event was hosted and co-organised by the governments of Brazil and Germany, and supported by IUCN and Itaipu Binacional.
Published in Daily Times, March 26th 2018.
