ISLAMABAD:Pakistan launched its first-ever Sustainable Development Goals Investor Map 2023, which identifies concrete, investable solutions to country’s pressing needs. Launching the goals, at a special session of the United Nations in New York, Pakistan Permanent Representative to the UN Munir Akram, said the Map highlights bankable investment opportunities, which can lead to a reduced trade deficit, transitions to alternate energy, a robust infrastructure, and enhanced food security in the country.

He also unveiled a diversified portfolio of climate-resilient investments worth 2.84 billion dollars in projects that include adapting to climate change, low-cost housing construction and Microfinance. In keynote address to the session via video-link from Islamabad, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Finance Tariq Bajwa, said we are finding ways and means to deal Pakistan’s current macroeconomic challenges.