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Pakistan’s Biennial Transparency Report: Tracking Emissions, Finance, And Climate Action Pakistan’s first BTR tracks emissions, climate finance needs, and adaptation progress, highlighting gaps and paths for stronger transparency  Since the adoption of the much-cherished Paris Agreement in 2015, transparency has stood as one of its vital pillars, ensuring countries not…

Accelerating Climate Ambition The Conference of the Parties, an annual global tradition for concerted efforts towards climate action, just concluded in Belém, Brazil. COP30 follows a grim year where the observed global mean surface temperatures and GHG emissions soared to record high values as compared to pre-industrial times. Conversely, it…

Pakistan and the Paris promise: On the wrong side of 1.5°C Ten years after the signing of the Paris Agreement, Pakistan faces an uncomfortable truth: we are steadily moving towards a climate future we were meant to avoid. For decades, Pakistan’s engagement with the annual UN climate summits — the COPs…

Pakistan must clear the air on smog. Here’s how As the winter of 2025 approaches, the genie of smog is preparing to escape its bottle in South Asia, especially in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This phenomenon occurs every year during the late autumn and winter months when temperature inversions cap…

Climate change intensified heavy monsoon rain in Pakistan, exacerbating urban floods that impacted highly exposed communities. From late June 2025, intense monsoon rainfall led to severe flooding in northern Pakistan, particularly in the provinces of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In mid-July, a storm caused widespread destruction with collapsed buildings and…

Between Data and Drama: Pakistan’s Meteorological Disconnect undermines Reliability and Response Authors: Dr. Mariam Saleh Khan, Dr. Fahad Saeed Pakistan is currently grappling with yet another season of destructive flooding, though the official numbers for losses and damages will come once the monsoon spell is over. Reports from National Disaster…

Heatwave Resurgence 2025: Will Saudi Arabia’s new adaptation measures mitigate heat stress? Every year millions of Muslims flock to Makkah to perform Hajj, an annual pilgrimage and one of the most important events on the Islamic calendar. In recent years with the advent of anthropogenic climate change, a variety of…

Pakistan Is Boiling: But the numbers aren’t telling the actual story With peak summer still ahead, parts of Pakistan are already sweltering at 50°C  Here, climate change is no longer a distant warning—it is the lived reality. The 1.5°C warming limit set by the 2015 Paris Agreement was not just a political…

NCQG – The Quest for Quantum and Quality As the “Finance COP” kicks off, the centerpiece of discussion – NCQG is capturing global attention. For the first time since Copenhagen Accord, climate finance is under revaluation, with high hopes attached for advancing the critical support developing nations need to combat…

The Global Stocktake (GST) Mandate: Pakistan’s Climate Crossroad Though it may be considered an old news now, the outcomes of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC) still hold immense relevance. The urgency and severity of climate change and its impacts insists…