Pakistan’s energy sector is in crisis. Inadequate electricity supplies cost the country US$14 bn annually and some 11,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) operate at just 60% of capacity. In 2015, Pakistan’s Ministry of Climate Change and the Punjab Power Development Board asked the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) to assess whether a Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA) would be an appropriate tool to support renewable energy solutions for Sialkot in the Punjab, one of Pakistan’s most emblematic industrial hubs of mainly export-oriented industry. For example, the factories of Sialkot supply 40 million footballs a year, rising to 60 million in World Cup years – an estimated 70% of the global production of hand-sewn footballs. To facilitate exports, Sialkot has had its own customs office since the mid- 1980s, and in 2007 the city opened an international airport.
Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/renewable-energy-solutions-punjab%E2%80%99s-industrial-sector-evaluating-nama-approach
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/juan-pablo-osornio
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/michelle-bosquet
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/climate-and-development-knowledge-network-cdkn
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/renewable-energy
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nationally-appropriate-mitigation-actions-namas
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/punjab
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industry
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pakistan
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electricity