Pakistan signs up for bloc advocating new fossil fuel treaty

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has joined a coalition spearheaded by small island Pacific states to push for a new treaty focused on managing an equitable phase-out of fossil fuels and financing a global just transition away from the threat of coal, oil and gas production, according to a statement issued by the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.

Pakistan is also the first South Asian state to engage with this group to “understand the contours of the proposal for a Fossil Fuel Treaty...