23/10/2025
Sustainable Development Foundation, a member of the Grow Green Network (GGN), held a public forum in (Sanghar) on (Thursday) in collaboration with the Indus Consortium. The event brought together civil society members, journalists, and political activists to discuss community-driven climate and energy solutions under the national campaign, Public Forums 2025: Mobilizing Communities to Demand Solar Equity, Exit Fossil Fuels, and Secure Climate-Resilient Recovery.
The public forums 2025 engaged participants from communities under the theme “Building Solar Equity, Exiting Fossil, and Securing Climate-Resilient Early Recovery.” It convened communities, parliamentarians, academia, civil society, and media to amplify public demands for energy equity, just transition, and climate justice in Pakistan.
Participants shared powerful testimonies on rising electricity costs, limited energy access, and increasing climate impacts.
Speakers (Rashid Islam Mughal-Chairman Municipal Committee Sanghar, Climate Change & Environment Expert Professor Nawaz Kunbhar, Peoples Party District Information Secretary Sibtain Ali Shah, Jabbar Junejo, Abdul Majeed Mangrio, DDMA Early Warring Incharge Sabir Mehar,Appa Salma Qureshi and others) underscored the urgent need for policy reforms to accelerate renewable energy adoption and ensure that communities most affected by climate change are prioritized. The discussions centered on four core policy demands: Ensuring affordable and accessible solar energy for all by removing the proposed 10% GST on solar, ensuring fair net metering, and introducing targeted subsidies or concessional loans for farmers, small businesses, and low-income households; Phasing out fossil fuel dependence by exiting LNG contracts, halting new fossil projects, and redirecting public and multilateral finance toward renewable energy; Advancing climate justice by ensuring that the Loss & Damage Fund delivers promised financing in a transparent and community-led manner and Prioritizing flood recovery through grants rather than loans, with a focus on resilient reconstruction, livelihood restoration, and inclusive opportunities for women and youth.
“The forum demonstrated the collective power of communities demanding just energy solutions,” said a spokesperson from the Indus Consortium. “People of Pakistan have made it clear: they need affordable solar energy, a fossil exit, and a recovery model that puts communities at the centre.”
The forum concluded with a signature campaign endorsing the People’s Charter for Energy and Climate Justice 2025, which gained significant public support., a member of the Grow Green Network (GGN), held a public forum in (Sanghar) on (Thursday) in collaboration with the Indus Consortium. The event brought together civil society members, journalists, and political activists to discuss community-driven climate and energy solutions under the national campaign, Public Forums 2025: Mobilizing Communities to Demand Solar Equity, Exit Fossil Fuels, and Secure Climate-Resilient Recovery.
The public forums 2025 engaged participants from communities under the theme “Building Solar Equity, Exiting Fossil, and Securing Climate-Resilient Early Recovery.” It convened communities, parliamentarians, academia, civil society, and media to amplify public demands for energy equity, just transition, and climate justice in Pakistan.
Participants shared powerful testimonies on rising electricity costs, limited energy access, and increasing climate impacts.
Speakers (Rashid Islam Mughal-Chairman Municipal Committee Sanghar, Climate Change & Environment Expert Professor Nawaz Kunbhar, Peoples Party District Information Secretary Sibtain Ali Shah, Jabbar Junejo, Abdul Majeed Mangrio, DDMA Early Warring Incharge Sabir Mehar,Appa Salma Qureshi and others) underscored the urgent need for policy reforms to accelerate renewable energy adoption and ensure that communities most affected by climate change are prioritized. The discussions centered on four core policy demands: Ensuring affordable and accessible solar energy for all by removing the proposed 10% GST on solar, ensuring fair net metering, and introducing targeted subsidies or concessional loans for farmers, small businesses, and low-income households; Phasing out fossil fuel dependence by exiting LNG contracts, halting new fossil projects, and redirecting public and multilateral finance toward renewable energy; Advancing climate justice by ensuring that the Loss & Damage Fund delivers promised financing in a transparent and community-led manner and Prioritizing flood recovery through grants rather than loans, with a focus on resilient reconstruction, livelihood restoration, and inclusive opportunities for women and youth.
“The forum demonstrated the collective power of communities demanding just energy solutions,” said a spokesperson from the Indus Consortium. “People of Pakistan have made it clear: they need affordable solar energy, a fossil exit, and a recovery model that puts communities at the centre.”
The forum concluded with a signature campaign endorsing the People’s Charter for Energy and Climate Justice 2025, which gained significant public support.
