Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination
The Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, 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.- 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
- 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 -General. It focuses on Environmental Legislation, trans-boundary Issues. It also focuses on matters relating to Sustainable Development, Water & Sanitation, Sustainable Urbanization. It is also responsible for multilateral Environmental Agreements including UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol.
- 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 - streamline and improve coordination with international agencies on environment and climate change related issues
- Mountain Areas Conservancy Fund ' - Mountain Areas Conservancy Project - 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.