A few months before the 2013 elections, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) unveiled its National Climate Change Policy amid much fanfare, and claimed that they were the first political party in Pakistan’s history to formulate such a policy aimed to limit the effects of climate change and preserve the environment. Even though the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had highlighted the importance of protecting the natural resources at Pakistan’s disposal during the 2008 election cycle, they made no practical moves in this regard, and the subsequent Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) government failed to achieve anything major either.
While Imran Khan has shared his own commitment to see that every effort is made to mitigate the effects of climate change, the initiative itself is being led by Malik Amin Aslam- the advisor to the Prime Minister on climate change. He was a former State Minister for Environment under Gen Pervez Musharraf’s regime, and a member of the PMLQ, before he joined the PTI in 2011. He has a Masters in Environmental Management from Oxford University, and has been the leading expert in the field of environment conservation in Pakistan for over two decades. In this capacity, he has worked at the World Bank and the UN, and was a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. After joining Imran Khan, he spearheaded the PTI’s environment policy mandate, and seems to be a competent and experienced candidate to lead Pakistan’s green initiatives.
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