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Circular Economy: Can sustainability alleviate Pakistan?

Circular Economy: Can sustainability alleviate Pakistan? As a new government is finally ushered into power at the back of ambitious promises, we can only hope that it will deliver on them because at this point any reform short of ambition would only mean further regression for Pakistan. Rome wasn’t built…
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Circular Agriculture: Antidote to resource scarcity in Pakistan.

Circular Agriculture: Antidote to resource scarcity in Pakistan. Estimates indicate that by the mid-century, Pakistan’s population would have exceeded 400 million. This presents an infinite set of possibilities; the best-case scenario would be that these new generations of Pakistanis would be absorbed across the nations various sectors of industry. However,…
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The Cold Wave: How it affects Pakistan’s winter weather

The Cold Wave: How it affects Pakistan’s winter weather Climate change is likely a contributing factor to the cold waves experienced in many countries around the world. Evidence of climate change includes rising global temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, shrinking glaciers and ice sheets, rising sea levels, and increased ocean…
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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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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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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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