ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has so far failed to enforce the National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) requiring it to introduce Euro-II compliant vehicles and diesel in the country. The NEQS for motor vehicles were notified in 2009 and the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources had committed to ensuring supply of Euro-II compliant […]
ISLAMABAD: Despite being one of the most susceptible countries to climate change, Pakistan is behind some of the least developed countries in the world in the submission of proposals and grants received from the Green Climate Fund (GCF). Countries such as Ethiopia, Mali, and Rwanda have received funds for multiple environmental projects, while Pakistan has […]
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Tuesday was informed that there is a 90% chance of another heatwave scorching Pakistan next year. The NA Standing Committee on Climate Change was informed of the probability by the Climate Change Ministry’s Secretary Arif Ahmed Khan. This was in response to member Imran Zafar Laghari’s allegation that the government […]
PESHAWAR: A mini-cyclone ripped through Peshawar division in April – at least 49 people were killed within hours in a phenomenon not even remotely common to the region. As unpredictability of weather becomes a constant, the province is beginning to feel climate change. As a noun, the phrase becomes contentious and is arguably one of […]
ISLAMABAD: As residents of Sindh and Karachi, in particular, continue to reel from a deadly heatwave that has claimed more than a thousand lives, weather experts have called for devising a policy or a national action plan on an immediate basis that focuses on dealing with the impact of climate change on people’s health. A […]
KARACHI: With more than 1,000 lives lost to the heatwave that is predicted to increase in frequency due to climate change, experts on Monday called upon the provincial government to develop a strategy involving communities to prevent a repeat of the disaster and integrate climate change considerations in all development plans. According to these experts, […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change is implementing a project to promote conservation of biodiversity and strengthen existing conservation efforts by using an innovative market-based mechanism, according to official sources. The project called “Mountains and market biodiversity and business in northern Pakistan” aims to develop community and institutional capacity for certified production of biodiversity-friendly and […]
ISLAMABAD: Glaciers across the world are seriously threatened by climate change and global warming, warned international experts in a recently-released report. The team of scientists came together as part of the Mountain Research Initiative, a global effort funded by Swiss National Foundation. Scientists from Pakistan, China, US, Canada, UK, Ecuador, Italy, Austria and Kazakhstan took […]
ISLAMABAD: The ministry of climate change pushed for better cooperation and diplomacy to reach viable agreements on climate change between the rich and poor countries. Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan stressed that coping with the risks of climate change demanded a prominent role in foreign policy. He was speaking at a gathering attended […]
ISLAMABAD: Flagrant violation of Islamabad’s Master Plan and laws over the years has irreversibly degraded its verdant environment; a commission looking into the decay of the once green city was told on Wednesday. “We know the problems and the laws, but this commission cannot answer why suggestions from similar public hearings and directions from courts […]
Karachi: Speakers representing academia, research institutions, Sindh government and civil society on Tuesday emphasised the need to encourage the youth of universities to take up the issues of climate change through research and focus on threats to natural resources due to climatic variations. They were speaking at the launching ceremony of the National Climate Change […]
KARACHI: Participants in a workshop held on Wednesday at a local hotel urged the government to make the climate change issue part of the overall development policy of the province as the phenomenon was affecting humans and environment in its entirety. They also underlined the need for research to study impacts of climate change. The […]
FAISALABAD: “Raising awareness among citizens on the role they play in destroying the environment is the need of the hour,” Environment Protection Agency District Officer Shaukat Hayat said on Friday. He said the world population was estimated to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. “We will need more planets like earth if we fail to protect […]
Karachi: Pakistan has over the decades witnessed extreme climate variations due to natural as well as anthropogenic hazards. These observations were made by University of Karachi Institute of Environmental Studies Prof Aamir Alamgir. According to Alamgir the changes were drastic enough to have affected monsoon rainfall patterns and had made Sindh susceptible to storms, cyclones, […]
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