The earth’s climate has always been changing. The impacts of climate change include biodiversity losses, rise in sea levels, shifts in weather patterns, changes in freshwater supply and an increase in extreme weather events such as floods and droughts as well as glacial melting and various health impacts. Major concerns are the threats to food, […]
HYDERABAD: Climate change has the potential to destroy the planet and could lead to economic, social, development and security challenges. This was observed by speakers at a one-day seminar on the ‘Impacts of climate change and disasters on small farmers’ organised by the Laar Humanitarian and Development Programme (LHDP) in a local hotel on Saturday. […]
QUETTA: Environmental Tribunal’s Chairman Sakhi Sultan was shot dead in his office on Friday. Later banned Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) called media houses in Quetta and claimed responsibility for the attack. Talking to The Express Tribune, the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Quetta Abdul Razaaq Cheema said two unknown armed men entered the Environmental Tribunal […]
All biotic components are an integral part of a healthy environment. The wider picture of the environment becomes more engaging than repelling when all the integral parts are secure, safe and healthy, which is a beacon of prosperity and opportunities in the form of a green economy. A number of the environmental factors and indicators […]
Karachi: The Chair of the Least Developed Countries Group at the UN climate change negotiations says that the latest science tells us that we can limit global temperature increases to a level that will save the poorest countries in the world. “All that is required is the will to do it but if we don’t […]
World Environment Day is celebrated annually on June 5 across the globe. Primarily the objective is to create awareness in the masses over the key environmental issues that the entire world is facing currently. The UN General Assembly declared 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). World Environment Day 2014 is […]
World Environment Day, established in 1972 by the United Nations Environment Program, is a day of reckoning for the environment and appraisal of sustainable development efforts by the nations of the world. Although the public and the private sectors in both the developed and the developing countries have been active in trying to save the […]
ISLAMABAD: An NGO distributed 500 environment-friendly shopping bags among people in Blue Area to mark the World Environment Day. The Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5. This year’s theme is ‘Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level’. Plastic bags don’t biodegrade, they photo-degrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits contaminating […]
ISLAMABAD: The government has reduced funding for environmental projects to Rs25 million in the 2014-15 budget from Rs58m allocated for the previous financial year. It allocated Rs10m for the Multilateral Environment Agreement (MEA), for which the Climate Change Division (CCD) did not even make demands, keeping in view other important and necessary projects for improvement […]
KARACHI: Environmentalists, wildlife experts and other stakeholders at a public hearing of a coal power project to be built at Port Qasim declared its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report ‘highly flawed’ stating that it seemed to have been prepared in haste. The public hearing was organised by the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) at a […]
KARACHI: The media should play a role in tackling climate change issues in country as the people rely on it to get their information, urged environmentalists. Speaking at a three-day training course on the ‘Basics of Climate Change for Coastal Areas of Pakistan’ organised by NGO LEAD Pakistan at Pearl Continental Hotel on Monday, former […]
KARACHI: Federal Ports and Shipping Minister Kamran Michael inaugurated, on Saturday, mangroves plantation campaign and vowed to protect the marine environment. Speaking at Karachi Port Trust’s (KPT) mangroves plantation ceremony held at a local hotel, he said that continuing destroying of mangroves has disturbed the marine environment. He said that during the campaign 100, 000 […]
THATTA: Speakers at a workshop held here on Thursday laid stress on building capacity of government officials and educating them as to how they could integrate climate change adaptation measures, initiatives and guidelines into official plans and budgetary considerations. The workshop on “Mainstreaming climate adaptation into development planning at district level” was organised by the […]
KARACHI: There is a need for a comprehensive study to examine the cumulative environmental impact of coal-fired power plants that have been proposed to be built within five kilometres area of Port Qasim, the director general of the Sindh Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has said. He was speaking on Monday at a local hotel at […]
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