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Jan 21
Renewed hope for tackling climate change – could it boost South Asia cooperation?
Renewed hope for tackling climate change – could it boost South Asia cooperation? Following the recent net zero announcements from big emitters, and as the newly elected US president Biden sets to work enacting his ambitious national and international climate agenda, it is high time that South Asia uses the…
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Dec 20
Greener Pakistan: A case for climate diplomacy
Greener Pakistan: A case for climate diplomacy Pakistan’s image has been tarnished by uneasy relations with its neighbours and the US and links to terrorism. The grounds for this are complex and much of the criticism is not unfounded. But could cooperation on fighting climate change improve Pakistan’s international standing under…
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Dec 20
In China and Pakistan’s coal romance, where’s the love for the climate?
In China and Pakistan’s coal romance, where’s the love for the climate? If you were travelling via motorway from Islamabad to Lahore during November or December 2016, you might have felt like your head was in the clouds. That’s thanks to the smog that engulfed large parts of Pakistan’s Punjab…
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Feb 19
Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs
Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs The recent landmark International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) report on glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region paints a drastic picture, indicating that the glaciers will melt by one third even if the global temperature rise is limited…
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Sep 18
Floods and droughts – weather extremes beyond 1.5 Celsius
The latest research shows that exceeding the 1.5 Celsius limit that was the aim of the Paris Accord by even half a degree would have a massive, disastrous effect on vulnerable populations, especially in the developing world As the Northern Hemisphere summer advances, reports of new heat records around the…
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Aug 18
Hot, dry or flooded – more weather extremes beyond 1.5°C warming
Hot, dry or flooded – more weather extremes beyond 1.5°C warming The body of new research in response to the IPCC’s call for papers for its 1.5°C special report shows that even an additional half a degree of global warming would bring a wealth of negative impacts on most natural…
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Nov 17
A year of climate extremes: a case for Loss & Damage at COP23
A year of climate extremes: a case for Loss & Damage at COP23 Climate extremes, many now bearing human fingerprints, are already causing devastating impacts across the globe, and the time is high for Loss and Damage to be considered in concrete and actionable terms in the implementation of the…
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Mar 16
El Niño: A looming disaster
The impact of a “Godzilla El Niño” is already being felt across the world, but is the Pakistani government ready? This year the world is in for a double whammy – climate change along with an El Nino effect so large, that the climatologist Bill Patzert, with NASA’s Jet Propulsion…
