THE ROLE OF GREEN ECONOMY IN MITIGATING CLIMATE CHANGE IN PAKISTAN: A STUDY UNDER SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Abstract

In light of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), specifically SDG-13 (climate action), this study examined at how a green economy might be helps in Pakistan mitigate climate change. Pakistan is one of most climate- vulnerable nations of world. Rising temperatures, and melting glaciers, and erratic rainfall patterns, and the frequent extreme weathers events pose serious environmental problems to the whole nation, endangering all lives, agricultural, water supplies, and all public health. This study investigates how the green economic practices as such as the use of renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, resources efficiency & environmental conservation can promote climate resilience in Pakistan. The study's foundation is of Ecological Modernization Theory that, which highlighted how technology and the advancement, institutional changes, and sustainable policy of the frameworks may also allow of environmental preservation and economic growth to coexist. The study comes to find conclusion that are successful shift to the sustainable development requires as a concerted afforded by public, and commercial, and civil society sectors. Pakistan can be reducing climate risks, and promoted equitable economic growth, by the bolstering green policies and investments. Pakistan is at a pivotal point in its growth, and while the globe struggles with the environmental degradation as well as climate changes.