{"id":24275,"date":"2023-11-15T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=24275"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:08:03","slug":"british-high-commission-in-islamabad-hosted-the-first-kings-birthday-party-since-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/british-high-commission-in-islamabad-hosted-the-first-kings-birthday-party-since-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"British High Commission in Islamabad hosted the first \u2018King\u2019s Birthday Party\u2019 since 1951"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24276\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/British_High_Commission.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/British_High_Commission.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/British_High_Commission-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission in Islamabad hosted the first \u2018King\u2019s Birthday Party\u2019 since 1951, marking His Majesty, King Charles III\u2019s 75<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. Utilised as a \u2018national day\u2019 by the UK, the event had an environment and climate change theme. This was reflective of both the King\u2019s interests and the high priority given to this work by the UK.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>Speaking to an audience of over 700 high profile attendees, including the Chief Guest Foreign Minister, Jalil Abbas Jilani, the British High Commissioner to Pakistan, Jane Marriott CMG OBE, outlined the depth of UK-Pakistani cooperation on the environment and climate change. Noting that since the 2022 floods, the UK has more than doubled investment in climate finance, and climate resilience and adaptation in Pakistan.<\/h5>\n<h5>Jane Marriott also used the occasion to announce the start of two new climate related initiatives. This included the start of phase two of the UK\u2019s Climate Finance Accelerator Programme, which will see eight innovative Pakistani-based projects receive technical support to help them find private investment to tackle climate-related issues.<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CIx3cxsUuS\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/new-british-high-commissioner-jane-marriott-cmg-obe-makes-trade-push-on-first-visit-to-karachi\/\">New British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott CMG OBE, makes trade push on first visit to Karachi<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;New British High Commissioner, Jane Marriott CMG OBE, makes trade push on first visit to Karachi&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/new-british-high-commissioner-jane-marriott-cmg-obe-makes-trade-push-on-first-visit-to-karachi\/embed\/#?secret=DWvstGuxcO#?secret=CIx3cxsUuS\" data-secret=\"CIx3cxsUuS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>As well as a new programme to expand a piloted AI-based &#8216;Early Warning Forest Fire Detection System&#8217; to cover more forested areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well as the Federal Capital Territory, which will help protect lives, jobs, livelihoods and Pakistan&#8217;s biodiversity.<\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott CMG OBE said the following<\/strong>:<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5>\u201cWith terrible conflicts occurring around the world, international focus on climate change is being tested. However, with COP28 just round the corner, and with time not on our side, it is essential that conversations and actions on climate change continue. We are utilising our King\u2019s Birthday Party \u2013 the UK\u2019s National Day &#8211; events to do just this, with conversations ranging from how to build on Pakistan\u2019s negotiating success on a Loss and Damage Fund at COP27, to how Pakistan can safeguard its marine economy via the Commonwealth\u2019s Blue Charter.\u201d<\/h5>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"R1ezTOUI5M\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/british-high-commissioner-jane-marriott-celebrates-40th-anniversary-of-chevening-scholarships\/\">British High Commissioner Jane Marriott celebrates 40th anniversary of Chevening scholarships<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;British High Commissioner Jane Marriott celebrates 40th anniversary of Chevening scholarships&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/british-high-commissioner-jane-marriott-celebrates-40th-anniversary-of-chevening-scholarships\/embed\/#?secret=qPFWTnVucF#?secret=R1ezTOUI5M\" data-secret=\"R1ezTOUI5M\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The British High Commission in Islamabad hosted the first \u2018King\u2019s Birthday Party\u2019 since 1951, marking His Majesty, King Charles III\u2019s 75th birthday. Utilised as a \u2018national day\u2019 by the UK, the event had an environment and climate change theme. This was reflective of both the King\u2019s interests and the high priority given to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[1930,1901,1892,326,966,355,4226,251,3610,48,3242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24278,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275\/revisions\/24278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}