The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and the Embassy of Ethiopia on Friday forged collaboration to promote Green Legacy Initiative for green development, nature conservation and food security through afforestation in Pakistan.
Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and the Embassy of Ethiopia jointly organized the seminar titled Ethio-Pakistan Fraternity Under The Green Legacy Initiative which is the flagship initiative of the government of Federal Republic of Ethiopia.
In his opening remarks, Executive Director SDPI, Dr Abid Qaiyum Suleri said the Ethiopian Ambassador is launching the leading Green Legacy Initiative in Pakistan that changed the flora and fauna of Ethiopia and incurred great societal impacts in terms of employment creation and food security.
He said the government of Ethiopia is sharing its success story with other developing countries facing climate crisis to achieve resilience against environmental degradation.
Dr Suleri underlined that unprecedented erratic rains in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) unveiled the daunting impacts of climate change that demanded the humanity to revert to the mother nature to explore nature-based solutions.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia in Pakistan, H.E. Jemal Beker Abdula lauded the Prime Minister’s Coordinator on Climate Change for her efforts and wished her good luck for championing all efforts for mitigating adverse impacts of climate change.
While presenting on the Green Legacy Initiative, the Ambassador underlined that it is a game changer initiative based on developing synergies in raising home grown solutions and retrieving human-nature connections transforming negative anthropogenic activities into positive trajectory through afforestation.
He informed that Ethiopia is aggressively taking up green development initiatives starting from its intended nationally determined contributions, halt on import of fossil fuel-based vehicles, net zero target by 2050, whereas it has started exporting its green legacy products to countries in Europe and Asia.
Ambassador Abdula mentioned that the Initiative is the brainchild of Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of the FDR who came into power in 2018 and injected various policy reforms that make Ethiopia peaceful, stable, prosperous, eco-friendly, resilient and greener.
