The Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif will address the two-day ‘World Leaders Climate Action Summit’ on Wednesday in Baku. He is likely to highlight the climate change issue and its negative impacts faced by the developing countries.

Prime Minister Sharif is attending the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) presently underway in Baku and hosted by the Azarbaijani government. He is accompanied by Deputy Foreign Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar and other senior officials.

According to the Pakistani Foreign Office, in Baku, the capital of the Republic of Azerbaijan, several high-level events and roundtable discussions hosted by Pakistan will also take place at the Pakistan Pavilion during COP29.

The Pakistani Prime Minister will also attend several High-Level events on the sidelines of the Summit and hold bilateral meetings with world leaders. At the COP29, Pakistan will call for balanced and ambitious progress on all issues such as loss and damage, adaptation, mitigation and means of implementation.

Pakistan will seek predictable financing to address developing countries' climate goals. Pakistan will also underscore the historical responsibility and the principle of Equity and Common but Differentiated Responsibility and call on developed nations to undertake deeper emission cuts.

Earlier on Tuesday, Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif was warmly received by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev and United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres upon his arrival at the summit venue.