Pakistan, July 24 -- Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination Dr Musadik Malik has called for urgent and equitable global action to tackle climate change - including deeper emission cuts and enhanced resilience financing for vulnerable nations.

He made these remarks during bilateral meetings with COP-29 President and Special Envoy on Environment to the President of Azerbaijan, Mukhtar Babayev, and Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Minister and COP-29 Lead Negotiator, Yalchin Rafiyev.

The meetings were held on the sidelines of the COP Heads of Delegation Retreat in Shamakhi.

The minister stressed that while countries of the Global South face the harshest consequences of climate disasters, the Global North continues t...