Events & Media
Dated: 28 Dec 2022
Agenda for Economic Reforms
in Pakistan - 10 Points
Agriculture and Livestock
Education Sector
Energy
Environment & Climate Change
Ease of Doing Business
Innovation and Value Addition
Macro-Financial Stability
Shortage Area
Taxation - 1
Taxation - 2
Value Addition
Highlights
Highlights from conferences, seminars, industry events, media appearances, and key engagements showcasing R&D initiatives and industry-focused activities.
Chain of Livestock Sector
The chain of livestock sector must be redefined from introduction of high yielding domestic breeds of milk animals up to exportable value-added products in addition to catering to the entire domestic needs, said Engr Ahmad Hassan Convener FCCI Standing Committee on Agriculture, Carbon Foot-Print/Zero Emission, Foundry & Allied Engineering.
Addressing the second meeting of this standing committee, he said that agriculture is the largest sector of our economy with 24% contribution towards GDP. “As a sub-sector of agriculture, the share of livestock is 14% towards national GDP and over 60% of the agriculture GDP,” he said and added that Pakistan is recognized as the fifth largest milk producing country despite lack of data, technology and innovative genetic applications. He said that the average milk yield of buffalo in Pakistan per annum is around 2,031 as against the 12,000kg per cow per annum in Israel. He proposed the Digital Livestock Management System (DLMS) to connect all key stakeholders in animal husbandry, including government agencies, farmers and field officers.
Participate at International Symposium
Engr. Ahmad Hassan and Dr. Arif participate at International symposium on Green energy nano materials, data science and artificial intelligence
Pakistan should seek financial and technical assistance from world organizations including UN, IMF and WEF to switch over from fossil fuel to clean renewable energy in order to contribute its productive role in minimizing ill impacts of GreenHouse Gaseous (GHG) emission, said Hassan Abulenein Associate Director World Economic Forum (WEF). He was addressing an online meeting with the R & D department of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI). He said that WEF has already chalked out a comprehensive strategy to phase out hazardous fuel which has posed serious threat to the earth and environment. He mentioned climate changes and increase in global warming which has become a key threat to life and may cause the extinction of a large number of endangered species of animals and plants. He appreciated the research work conducted by the R & D department of the FCCI on environment preservation and said that we could collaborate to carve out a workable strategy to promote renewable energy in Pakistan.
Engineer Ahmad Hassan Convener FCCI Standing Committee on R&D and former Vice President FCCI said that WEF, UN, IMF and other global organizations have already given a plan to cut use of fossil fuel by 50% by the year 2030. He said that Pakistan is trapped by IPPs which are producing costly electricity by using fossil fuel. “We should exploit the global agreements including UN sustainable development goals and Paris agreement to get rid of the harsh conditionalities of the IPPs which have become an unbearable burden on the national kitty”, he said and added that Pakistan has potential to produce 2.9 million MW electricity through solar but we are dwindling at only 1000MW. He mentioned a white paper published by the R&D department of the FCCI which has given a comprehensive solution to get rid of fossil fuel by promoting clean and renewable energy resources in the country. He said that during the last one century global warming has recorded an alarming increase of 1.2 centigrade which is perpetrating unpredicted rains, floods, storms and earthquakes badly affecting the cropping patron in addition to inflicting colossal loss to the infrastructure. He urged upon the WEF and other global organizations to divert maximum funding towards the production of clean energy so that the carbon emission could be reduced to the minimum level. He said that Pakistan was bearing a huge loss of $3.8bn while the floods of 2022 also caused staggering losses to the tune of $15bn. He said that the business community must pressurize the government to renegotiate with the IPPs so that the UN objective of reducing fossil fuel to 50% by 2030 could be achieved without any hassle.
Amjad Khawaja of PHMA, Engineer Asim Munir, Abdullah Qadri, Dr Muhammad Arif and Muhammad Faizan also participated in the meeting.FAISALABAD. Pakistan should seek financial and technical assistance from world organizations including UN, IMF and WEF to switch over from fossil fuel to clean renewable energy in order to contribute its productive role in minimizing ill impacts of GreenHouse Gaseous (GHG) emission, said Hassan Abulenein Associate Director World Economic Forum (WEF). He was addressing an online meeting with the R & D department of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (FCCI). He said that WEF has already chalked out a comprehensive strategy to phase out hazardous fuel which has posed serious threat to the earth and environment. He mentioned climate changes and increase in global warming which has become a key threat to life and may cause the extinction of a large number of endangered species of animals and plants. He appreciated the research work conducted by the R & D department of the FCCI on environment preservation and said that we could collaborate to carve out a workable strategy to promote renewable energy in Pakistan. Engineer Ahmad Hassan Convener FCCI Standing Committee on R&D and former Vice President FCCI said that WEF, UN, IMF and other global organizations have already given a plan to cut use of fossil fuel by 50% by the year 2030. He said that Pakistan is trapped by IPPs which are producing costly electricity by using fossil fuel. “We should exploit the global agreements including UN sustainable development goals and Paris agreement to get rid of the harsh conditionalities of the IPPs which have become an unbearable burden on the national kitty”, he said and added that Pakistan has potential to produce 2.9 million MW electricity through solar but we are dwindling at only 1000MW.
He mentioned a white paper published by the R&D department of the FCCI which has given a comprehensive solution to get rid of fossil fuel by promoting clean and renewable energy resources in the country. He said that during the last one century global warming has recorded an alarming increase of 1.2 centigrade which is perpetrating unpredicted rains, floods, storms and earthquakes badly affecting the cropping patron in addition to inflicting colossal loss to the infrastructure. He urged upon the WEF and other global organizations to divert maximum funding towards the production of clean energy so that the carbon emission could be reduced to the minimum level. He said that Pakistan was bearing a huge loss of $3.8bn while the floods of 2022 also caused staggering losses to the tune of $15bn.
He said that the business community must pressurize the government to renegotiate with the IPPs so that the UN objective of reducing fossil fuel to 50% by 2030 could be achieved without any hassle. Amjad Khawaja of PHMA, Engineer Asim Munir, Abdullah Qadri, Dr Muhammad Arif and Muhammad Faizan also participated in the meeting.