Bilal Anwar Climate Governance & Finance
The Editorial and Opinion page of The Nation for 11 August 2026, carrying an article by Bilal Anwar on carbon markets, Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and Pakistan's Nationally Determined Contributions
The NationDrainage Reform · 11 August 2026
The opinion page of The Express Tribune for 15 October 2022, carrying Bilal Anwar's article ‘Unlocking financing for climate action in Pakistan’
The Express TribuneUnlocking financing for climate action in Pakistan · 15 October 2022
The opinion page of The Express Tribune for 25 June 2022, carrying Bilal Anwar's article ‘Climate change: new dimension of natural disasters’
The Express TribuneClimate change: new dimension of natural disasters · 25 June 2022
The opinion page carrying Bilal Anwar's article ‘The challenge of sustainable development’, published in The Express Tribune on 26 February 2014
Bilal Anwar giving a television interview to camera in front of the backdrop for the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign supported by NDRMF
Bilal Anwar speaking from the lectern at the Marriott Hotel, Karachi
A COP24 press conference panel seated in front of the Katowice backdrop, an audience in the foreground
Bilal Anwar speaking into a microphone on a panel at a finance summit, a fellow panellist listening beside him
Bilal Anwar speaking at multiple events and appearing in media coverage, including speaking engagements and coverage in print
On the Record

Perspectives, Media & Conversations

  1. Daily TimesNewsDec 2025 NDRMF to Introduce First-Ever Disaster Risk Insurance Framework On the first national framework to carry disaster losses off the public exchequer and onto insurance markets
  2. Dawn.comFeatureNov 2025 How NDRMF Is Responding to a Deepening Climate Emergency On what a national fund can do as the emergency outpaces the budget that answers it
  3. Business RecorderColumnJul 2025 From Seville to Sindh On carrying the Seville financing commitments home — from one-off pilots to a national resilience financing facility
  4. Business RecorderAnalysisJun 2025 Unpuzzling the Disaster Risk Insurance Challenge in Pakistan On why disaster risk insurance has never taken hold here, and what would have to change for it to
  5. Arab NewsOp-EdOct 2024 As COP29 Approaches, a Fragmented International Climate Finance System in Review On a climate finance system split across too many windows for the countries that need it most
  6. APPInterviewOct 2024 NDRMF Business Policy 2024 Envisages Paradigm Shift in Disaster, Humanitarian Sector On eighteen months spent turning a donor-driven conduit into a demand-driven, catalytic fund
  7. Arab NewsInterviewNov 2023 Pakistan Says Its First Carbon Market to Be Based on ‘Cap-and-Trade’ System On Pakistan’s first carbon market, and the cap-and-trade design proposed for it
  8. The NationColumnOct 2023 Carbon Markets in Pakistan On carbon markets, emissions trading and Pakistan’s place in them
  9. DawnReportedOct 2023 Stakeholders Make Case for Carbon Trading On Article 6.4, and what exporters facing the EU’s carbon border levy will have to prove
  10. The NationColumnSep 2023 Climate Finance Challenges On the $80 billion gap between Pakistan’s recovery and adaptation plans and the money to carry them
  11. The Express TribuneReportedOct 2022 ‘Disaster Resilient Health Infrastructure Needed’ On the 2022 floods as a health emergency — the second thing a household asks for after food
  12. The Express TribuneOpinionOct 2022 Unlocking Financing for Climate Action in Pakistan On global carbon inequality, and the case it makes for financing climate action in Pakistan
  13. The Express TribuneOpinionJun 2022 Climate Change: New Dimension of Natural Disasters On glaciers, and climate change as a new dimension of natural disaster risk
  14. The Express TribuneOpinionFeb 2014 The Challenge of Sustainable Development On institutions as the precondition for sustainable development — the earliest statement of an argument he still makes

Recordings

  1. PodcastTalha Ahad Podcast · Episode 33 Climate Change Awareness, Adaptive Strategies and Risk Management The longest conversation on this page, and the one that starts furthest back: why public attention lags the risk, and what that gap costs a country already paying for it.
  2. ProfileCEO Today TV · Coffee With CEO Profiling Mr. Bilal Anwar and the NDRMF Journey The fund’s own story told from the chair — how NDRMF was built, and what the eighteen-month repurposing was meant to change.
  3. BroadcastPakistan TV · World This Morning Strengthening Pakistan’s Strategic Response to Climate Change A morning-broadcast reading of where national climate strategy actually stands, set against the global picture.
  4. Official ReleaseNDRMF Podcast Series · ndrmf.pk Voices of Resilience — 4th Episode With Shabnam Baloch, on the modernisation of the fund itself: the NatCat model, its own data centre, and the SUPARCO collaboration behind both.
  5. PodcastDawn News English · All Things Money Climate Disasters and the Economy Disaster risk read as a macroeconomic problem rather than a humanitarian one — the connection drawn for a business audience.
  6. PodcastDawn News English · Legally Speaking Inside Pakistan’s Climate Tech and Disaster Finance Push AI-driven catastrophe modelling, predictive flood systems, carbon markets and Article 6.4, unpacked for a mainstream audience.
  7. PanelICAP · CFO Conference 2024 Curating Responsible Growth Climate put into the CFO’s language: carbon intensity, ESG reporting, and the EU’s carbon border levy waiting for Pakistan’s exporters.
  8. SeminarOrganised by NDRMF International Seminar on Disaster Risk Financing The instruments themselves — pooled capital, risk transfer, insurance — set out at the fund’s own international seminar.
  9. Think-Tank PanelPIDE Seminar · Islamabad The Natural Catastrophe (NatCat) Model for Policy and Planning in Pakistan The geospatial model that replaced anecdotal damage estimates, argued in front of the country’s development economists.
  10. PodcastKaisay with Raja Jawad · Episode 63 The Political Economy of Climate, Disasters, Resilience and Governance The blunt version of the argument: Pakistan’s climate crisis is, underneath it, a governance crisis.
  11. Institutional BriefingNDRMF · Quetta, March 2024 Consultative Session on Climate Change and Carbon Markets, Balochistan Carbon market frameworks devolved to a province — capacity building with the Balochistan Public Private Partnership Authority.
  12. Public ServiceNDRMF & P&D Board Punjab · facilitated by REMIT MoU Signed Between P&D Board Punjab and NDRMF The unglamorous part: aligning federal climate finance with a provincial development board that has its own plan and its own budget.
  13. AddressNDMA · PEDRR 2023 Message from CEO NDRMF at the Pakistan Expo on Disaster Risk Reduction A short address to the national disaster-risk community on what the fund exists to do for it.
  14. PodcastNaeem Sikandar Podcast · Episode 181 Can Pakistan Survive Flooding and Climate Change? The question put plainly, and answered at length: what survivable looks like, and what it would take to build.
  15. Conference PanelAJCONF · Voicepk.net Reconstruction and Rehabilitation — Post Floods in Pakistan A televised policy debate on rebuilding after 2022, alongside federal ministers and World Bank specialists.
  16. International PanelALNAP · Humanitarian Outcomes Learning for Pakistan: Flood Response Challenges and Opportunities The international aid architecture assessed from the receiving end — what middle-income countries need from it, and what they do not.
  17. RoundtableSDPI & DAI · One-day workshop Climate Resilient Water Governance Approaches for Hill Torrent Management Hill torrents — the flood risk nobody had modelled — brought into the NatCat system after 2022 closed the argument.