Jam Kamal Khan, Federal Minister for Commerce

Jam Kamal Khan brings the trade and commerce perspective to Pakistan’s climate conversation, a dimension that is increasingly impossible to separate from environmental policy. As Federal Minister for Commerce, he oversees a portfolio that sits at the intersection of international competitiveness and the global green economy. Pakistan’s exports, particularly in textiles, agriculture, and manufacturing, face growing pressure from trading partners and international markets around carbon intensity, environmental standards, and supply chain sustainability. The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and similar instruments are beginning to reshape the economics of trade in ways that make climate performance a matter of commercial survival for export-oriented economies like Pakistan. His role makes the business case for climate action visible in a different register: not only as a moral obligation or a development imperative, but as a condition for Pakistan’s continued access to the global markets on which its economic future depends.