Climate Change

01 Sep 22

Pakistan’s floods must be a wake up call on climate action ahead of Sharm El-Sheikh

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Dr Fahad Saeed is a climate impacts scientist based in Islamabad. He writes on how climate impacts are exacerbating power and development issues, despite Pakistan’s negligible emissions, and how the floods could reframe the debate on Loss and Damage ahead of COP27 in Eygpt this year. Witnessing a human being…

27 Jan 21

Renewed hope for tackling climate change – could it boost South Asia cooperation?

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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 current global wave of optimism in the fight against climate change to boost…

13 Dec 20

Greener Pakistan: A case for climate diplomacy

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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 the leadership of its new Prime Minister…

13 Dec 20

In China and Pakistan’s coal romance, where’s the love for the climate?

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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 and Sindh provinces in that period. This was clearly “not a natural…

25 Feb 19

Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs

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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 to 1.5°C, a goal of the Paris climate agreement.…

17 Sep 18

Floods and droughts – weather extremes beyond 1.5 Celsius

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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…

27 Aug 18

Hot, dry or flooded – more weather extremes beyond 1.5°C warming

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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 and human systems around the world. It would also constitute a…

01 Nov 17

A year of climate extremes: a case for Loss & Damage at COP23

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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 Paris Agreement. Fiji, the first island nation to lead a UN climate summit,…

30 Mar 17

In China and Pakistan’s coal romance – where is the love for the climate?

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“Winning the future will not be done with technologies of the past” – Climate Analytics’ Dr Fahad Saeed writes about Pakistan’s plans to massively expand its coal capacity. If you were travelling via motorway from Islamabad to Lahore during November or December 2016, you might have felt like your head…

02 Mar 16

El Niño: A looming disaster

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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…

Pakistan’s floods must be a wake up call on climate action ahead of Sharm El-Sheikh

Renewed hope for tackling climate change – could it boost South Asia cooperation?

Greener Pakistan: A case for climate diplomacy

In China and Pakistan’s coal romance, where’s the love for the climate?

Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs

Floods and droughts – weather extremes beyond 1.5 Celsius

Hot, dry or flooded – more weather extremes beyond 1.5°C warming

A year of climate extremes: a case for Loss & Damage at COP23

In China and Pakistan’s coal romance – where is the love for the climate?

El Niño: A looming disaster

Dr. Fahad Saeed

Dr. Mariam Saleh Khan

The Global Stocktake (GST) Mandate: Pakistan’s Climate Crossroad.

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