Pakistan's framework rests on the Climate Change Act 2017, which creates the Climate Change Council and Authority, and the National Climate Change Policy 2021, both cited as Pakistan's own legal basis inside its NDC3.0 submission of 24 September 2025. That NDC3.0 sets a 50%-by-2035 emissions cut, 17% unconditional and 33% conditional on international finance, and reaches for Article 6 cooperative approaches, which the Policy Guidelines for Trading in Carbon Markets 2025, unveiled at COP29 in January 2025, are designed to operationalise. Pakistan has no dedicated forest or REDD+ statute, and has not filed a net-zero target year.
Projects
Delta Blue Carbon
The world's largest blue-carbon project, restoring arid-climate mangroves across the Indus Delta.
Lakhodair Landfill carbon market pilot project
An announced Article 6 pilot supplying captured landfill methane into Lahore's gas network.
Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme
A national afforestation programme aiming for ten billion trees by 2023.
Regulation
Framework law
"guided by legislative and policy frameworks such as the Pakistan Climate Change Act (PCCA) 2017 and the updated National Climate Change Policy (NCCP, 2021)"Pakistan's own NDC3.0 submission PDF, p.5
Establishes the Pakistan Climate Change Council (overall strategy) and Pakistan Climate Change Authority (policy coordination, national GHG registry/database).
Issuing body: Pakistan Climate Change Council / Pakistan Climate Change Authority · Single source
NDC
"Pakistan remains on track to achieve its target of reducing projected emissions by 50% between 2015 and 2030, 15% through domestic resources and an additional 35% contingent on international financial support... Through NDC3.0, Pakistan would like to voluntarily reduce its GHG emissions up to 50% by 2035. Of this, 17% will be achieved unconditionally through domestic resources and policy measures, while the remaining 33% is conditional on the provision of adequate...[international support]"Executive Summary, pp.1–2 of the official UNFCCC-hosted PDF
Third NDC: 50% emissions cut by 2035 vs projected baseline (17% unconditional / 33% conditional); explicitly invokes Article 6 cooperative approaches.
Issuing body: Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination, MoCC&EC · Corroborated
Carbon market
"Pakistan Policy Guidelines for Trading in Carbon Markets 2025"climate-laws.org geography family listing
Issuing body: Ministry of Climate Change and Environmental Coordination · Single source
Forest / REDD+
No forest / redd+ instrument located. Checked: none found, checked MoCC&EC site, climate-laws.org geography listing, and Pakistan's own NDC3.0 document (no forest-law or net-zero-year citation located in the extracted executive summary)
Net-zero / LTS
No net-zero / lts instrument located. Checked: none found, checked MoCC&EC site, climate-laws.org geography listing, and Pakistan's own NDC3.0 document (no forest-law or net-zero-year citation located in the extracted executive summary)