Corporate sector’s role vital to success of PM’s Clean Green Pakistan Program: Amin
Pakistan’s Climate Change Ministry and Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited (CCI Pakistan) signed an agreement under which CCI pledged support to Prime Minister’s ‘Clean and Green Pakistan’ vision.
CCI Pakistan would support and engage in various cleaning and green activities as well as plantation of around 50,000 tree saplings across the cities of Karachi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Islamabad, Attock, Multan, and Rahim Yar Khan under the agreement.
CCI Pakistan is part of CCI – the sixth-largest bottler within the Coca-Cola System in terms of sales volume.
As part of CCI’s corporate volunteer program, its employees would also support in executing these activities, said Basir Zafar, manager public affairs of CCI Pakistan. The green activities are scheduled to be completed within 2021, which reflects a significant contribution towards shaping a clean and green Pakistan, he said.
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam said the role of the corporate sector was vital to the success of Clean Green Pakistan Program.
Aslam stressed that all corporate citizens of Pakistan had a moral obligation to focus their social responsibility agenda towards supporting initiatives such as the ‘Clean and Green Pakistan Program’ which can effectively reverse the environmental degradation that is currently threatening our climate sustainability.”
Clean Green Pakistan initiative was launched by Prime Minister Imran Khan in October 2018 that underpins behavioural change and institutional strengthening while envisaging the need to address five components: plantation, solid waste management, liquid waste management/ hygiene, total sanitation and safe drinking water.
Key officials including SAPM Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam along with representatives from the Ministry of Climate Change, CCI Pakistan, Environment Protection Agency (EPA) as well as the district waste management authorities of related cities attended the ceremony.
“We are a responsible and environmentally conscious corporate citizen of Pakistan. This mutual alliance serves as an expression of our firm belief to protect and nurture the environment and fend off catastrophic challenges of climate change faced by Pakistan” Ahmet Kursad Ertin, General Manager at CCI Pakistan said.