Islamabad December 27, 2020 Islamabad : There was a broad consensus among key stakeholders during a consultative meeting on the need for checking coal-based power generation in the country and diverting 60 per cent of the total energy mix to renewable energy by 2030. The meeting was held at the Institute of Policy Studies to discuss IPS study on 'barriers surrounding distributed generation' with IPS executive president Khalid Rahman in the chair. The event was moderated by former water and power secretary Mirza Hamid Hasan and addressed by Asad Mehmood of the National Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority, Aftab Ahmad Awan of the Planning Commission, Neshmiya A Khan, Hamza Butt and Maryam Arshad of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Zeeshan Ashfaq of the World Wind Energy Association Pakistan (WWEA), Mushtaq Gaadi of the Quaid-i-Azam University, and Dr Azhar Lashari and Haneea Isaad of the Rural Development Policy Institute (RDPI).