Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination

Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination
وزارت موسمیاتی تبدیلی و ماحولیاتی ہم آہنگی (پاکستان)
Agency overview
FormedAugust 4, 2017 (2017-08-04)
Preceding agency
JurisdictionGovernment of Pakistan
HeadquartersIslamabad,
33°43′22.11″N 73°05′46.21″E / 33.7228083°N 73.0961694°E / 33.7228083; 73.0961694
Employees173 employees (58 Officers and 115 staff members)
Annual budget802.69 million rupees (2018-19)
Minister responsible
Deputy Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Ms. Aisha Humera Moriani, Federal Secretary
Child agencies
Websitewww.mocc.gov.pk

The Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Urdu: وزارت موسمیاتی تبدیلی و ماحولیاتی ہم آہنگی, is a Cabinet-level ministry of the Government of Pakistan concerned with climate change in Pakistan. Senator Musadik Masood Malik is in charge of the ministry with the status of a Federal Minister.

Wings

The ministry has multiple wings under it, as described below.[1]

  • Administration & Development Wing - a total of 173 employees work at the Ministry of Climate Change. This wing is head by a joint secretary. The current Federal Secretary of the Ministry is Ms. Aisha Humera Moriani [2]
  • Climate Finance Wing - coordinating, mobilizing, and managing climate finance in order to support the country’s climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts, and to ensure that Pakistan meets its climate-related commitments under national and international frameworks
  • Climate Change and Environment Wing - headed by Sr. Joint Secretary (Env/CC)-General. It focuses on Environmental Legislation, trans-boundary (inter-provincial, regional and international) Issues. It also focuses on matters relating to Sustainable Development, Water & Sanitation, Sustainable Urbanization. It is also responsible for multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) including UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol.[2]
  • Forestry Wing - National policy, plans, strategies and programmes regarding ecology, forestry, wildlife, biodiversity and desertification, and; Coordination, monitoring and implementation of environmental agreements with other countries, international agencies and forums.
  • International Cooperation Wing (IC Wing) - streamline and improve coordination with international agencies on environment and climate change related issues
  • Mountain Areas Conservancy Fund (MACF) - Mountain Areas Conservancy Project (MACP) - The focus of MACP was on scaling up sustainable management of natural resources, especially biodiversity, from village level to valley level and ultimately to wider landscape level of conservancy.

Attached departments (agencies)

References

  1. ^ "Wings, Sections". Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan". Ministry of Climate Change, Government of Pakistan. Retrieved 22 February 2019.

 

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