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Between Data and Drama: Pakistan’s Meteorological Disconnect undermines Reliability and Response
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…
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Nov 24
The Global Stocktake (GST) Mandate: Pakistan’s Climate Crossroad
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…
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May 24
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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May 24
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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Sep 22
Pakistan’s floods must be a wake up call on climate action ahead of Sharm El-Sheikh
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…
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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…
