KARACHI: People at a public hearing held at a hotel on Monday expressed doubts over the capacity, authority and influence of the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) to carry out post-EIA (environmental impact assessment) monitoring of development projects and to ensure that public and private organisations comply with environmental laws and fulfil the commitments they […]
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 […]
KHAIRPUR: India, Pakistan, China and Iran are the world’s most polluted countries while Karachi is the most environmentally degraded city of Pakistan. This was stated by Prof Mohammad Sharif Shaikh, chairman of the geography department of Shah Abdul Latif University (Salu) Khairpur, while quoting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) reports for years 2008-13 at an […]
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: It is the collective responsibility of the State and the society to not only ensure protection of land, air and water from pollution but also raise awareness among masses regarding consequent hazards. These views were expressed by Waqar Ahmed, an official of the Sindh Environmental Protection Authority (SEPA) on Thursday at a seminar titled […]
Karachi: Today, June 5, has been designated as the World Environment Day. One is in a quandary to decide as to whether the day should be celebrated or solemnly observed. Perhaps, if we were to rack our brains and ponder the question, the latter would be the answer. In fact, the perceptive among us would […]
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, […]
Karachi: The National Forum for Environment & Health (NFEH) in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme has announced that it will hold different functions from June 1 to 7 in connection with World Environment Day. NFEH President Muhammad Naeem Qureshi said in a statement that his forum had constituted a network of over 20 […]
KARACHI: It is always fascinating to try and get into the mind of an artist, a young artist at that, despite the fact that these days a majority of Pakistani artists tend to highlight issues that are largely socio-political in nature. Waseem Ahmed’s latest work titled In the Name of Faith, which went on display […]
Though mass media was flourishing in Pakistan the country was still among most unsafe states for journalists to work in. Denmark’s Ambassador to Pakistan Jesper Mollar Sorensen made these remarks while presiding over the inaugural session of the 2nd ‘Transforming Youth Media Summit’ on Saturday. The envoy said that some 110 journalists had lost their […]
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan on Monday expressed deep concern over different environmental issues, particularly water and air pollution which continue to affect the health of the people. In a statement issued on Monday, he said that environmental degradation has emerged to be a grave socioeconomic issue for the country and […]
ISLAMABAD: The environmental protection watchdog has swung into action against polluting rerolling mills in the industrial district of the federal capital. Three rerolling mills in the I-9 Sector have been ordered to shut their operations after emissions were found hazardous to the environment. According to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official, the shut down orders […]
Karachi: Speakers at a workshop on environmental reporting for journalists of Chachro and Islamkot highlighted the need for detailed and improved coverage of climate change related issues in Pakistan. “Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, caused by burning of fossil fuels for industrial use, land use and population pressures, the global average temperature […]
KARACHI: After obtaining the GSP Plus status the government is bound to take steps to reduce the carbon footprints by replacing hazardous products with environment friendly substitutes like immediately replacing polypropylene bags with jute bags in all food grains including wheat. Muhammad Younus, Secretary of the Pakistan Jute Mills Association (PJMA), pointed out that by […]
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