Climate Change Cell

After the 18^th amendment, Climate Change has become a provincial subject. To streamline climate action and to improve climate governance at the provincial level, the Climate Change Cell was established at the Planning and Development Department, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

VISION

"Empowering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to thrive through the holistic integration of Climate Sensitive Planning, robust Climate Finance, and effective Climate Governance, ensuring sustainable development, resilience, and prosperity for present and future generations."

Objectives

• To improve Climate Governance at the provincial level.
• To provide policy inputs on various interventions at all levels of the government.
• To act as a core provincial coordination point for climate action.
• To harness the international climate financing opportunities and carbon markets for the province.
• To mainstream climate change into planning and process.
• To act as an information and learning hub, building the capacity of relevant stakeholders at the provincial level.

Activities

• Training and Capacity Building of the relevant provincial stakeholders
• Green Climate Fund Accreditation for the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Incorporation of Climate Change into Planning Cycle
• Liaison between the provincial government and the Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination
• Management of local, inter-provincial, and donor coordination group
• Inter Provincial Climate Change exposure Visits

MEAs – Multi Environment Agreements

Pakistan is a signatory to various Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)/conventions/protocols and has ratified all of them. Consequently, it is mandatory for the state to ensure the implementation of the agreements that have been endorsed. The international environmental instruments (conventions/ protocols) may be divided into five broad categories:

Forestry / Biodiversity

• Convention on Biological Diversity. ( Download)
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). ( Download)
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention). ( Download)
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species. ( Download)
• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).( Download )

Climate Change

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).( Download )
• Kyoto Protocol to UNFCCC. ( Download)
• Paris Agreement. ( Download)

Chemicals and Hazardous Wastes

• Rotterdam Convention on prior Informed Consent (PIC) for certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade: ( Download)
• Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal: ( Download)
• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic pollutants (POPs). ( Download)
• Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. ( Download)
• 1987 Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer. ( Download)
• Minamata Convention on Mercury. ( Download)

Regional Seas

• United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS):( Download )

LINE DEPARTMENTS

Climate Change, Forestry, Environment and Wildlife Department( http://few.kp.gov.pk/)

Agriculture Department ( http://agriculture.kp.gov.pk/ )

Livestock, Fisheries and Cooperative Department ( http://lfc.kp.gov.pk/ )

Tourism Department (https://tourism.kp.gov.pk/ )

Energy and Power Department (http://ep.kp.gov.pk/ )

Transport Department ( http://transport.kp.gov.pk/ )

Minerals Department ( http://minerals_developmen.kp.gov.pk/ )

Industries and Commerce (http://industries.kp.gov.pk/ )

Communication and Works Department (http://communication_works_department.kp.gov.pk/ )

Relief, Rehabilitation, and Settlement Department (http://reliefdepartment.kp.gov.pk/ )

Social Welfare Department (http://social_welfare.kp.gov.pk/ )

Science and Technology and Information Technology (http://stit.kp.gov.pk/ )

Public Health Engineering Department (http://public_health_engin.kp.gov.pk/ )

Finance Department (http://www.finance.gkp.pk/ )

Local Government Department (http://local_government.kp.gov.pk/ )

Law Parliamentary Affairs and Human Rights (http://law.kp.gov.pk/ )

Labour Department (http://labour.kp.gov.pk/ )

Culture, Sports, Tourism, Archaeology and Youth Affairs (http://docstay.kp.gov.pk/ )

Higher Education Department (http://hed.gkp.pk/ )

Food Department Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( http://food.kp.gov.pk/ )

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Commission on the Status of Women (http://kpcsw.kp.gov.pk/ )

Information and Public Relations Department (http://information_public.kp.gov.pk/ )

Bureau of Statistics (http://bos.kp.gov.pk/ )

Inter-Provincial Coordination Department (http://ipc.kp.gov.pk/ )