In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking the start of a permanent decline in fossil generation. 2024 both clarified and consolidated the shape of the global …
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Zahid Hamid, stressed the need for exploiting massive Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) potential to address the country’s shrinking forest cover by large-scale forestation. “The country corporate sector should divert a significant chunk of the CSR funds to strengthen the country’s ailing forestry sector, so that …
LONDON – Asia has the largest number of people exposed to natural disasters, but African countries are the most vulnerable to them, largely because of political instability, corruption, poverty and inequality, a new global assessment shows. India has a billion people at risk, with China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan …
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was colossal loss to green economy. In an interview to Pakistan Press International (PPI) at his office, he said Pakistan’s …
RAWALPINDI: Waste collection mechanism may have improved with award of a multi-million dollar contract to a Turkish firm, the Rawalpindi authorities are yet to find a sustainable solution to dispose of the waste. Al-Buraq, a Turkish firm, was handed over the task of collecting and disposing of solid waste in …
In her home in the remote Hunza valley, Gul Mehreen smiles as she places a tea kettle on the electric stove in her immaculate kitchen. As she makes tea for guests, the farmer jokes about "how amazingly enjoyable" cooking has become since a small-scale hydropower generator was installed nearby. Her …
Islamabad—The World Bank Group in its recently published report “Pakistan Country Snapshot” has said that the country has made impressive progress in reducing absolute poverty and improving shared prosperity. “The percentage of the population below the national poverty rate has fallen from 34.7 per cent in fiscal year 2002 to …
ISLAMABAD - Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan in collaboration with OXFAM Novib has launched the “Climate Change Portal Pakistan” to disseminate research and sectoral papers on climate change. The portal aims to raise climate change awareness on various themes by publishing materials authored by Pakistani and non-Pakistani researchers/writers. …
Singapore is still the world's most expensive place to live, while China's Hong Kong has moved up seven places in the ranking into joint second place with Zurich, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s Worldwide Cost of Living survey released on Thursday. Singapore has the highest score of 116, …
The Green Line of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project has been inaugurated by the Prime Minister. This is a historic moment as for the last several years, in fact since the early 1970’s, we kept hearing about a public mass transit system for Karachi. A lot of plans and …
With the mercury topping 36.5 degrees Celsius on Saturday, Karachi witnessed it the hottest day of the month in over two decades, the Met office said on Sunday. The heat wave is expected to continue till Monday or Tuesday after which temperatures will gradually dwindle down, officials say. The reason …
There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farming households globally, who comprise a large proportion of the world’s poor living on less than $2 a day. In CGAP’s Smallholder Diaries, researchers met with 270 smallholder farmers in Mozambique, Pakistan, and Tanzania every two weeks for a year to understand their …
Pakistan's parliament is the first government assembly building in the world to operate solely on solar energy. The China-backed green building was inaugurated on 23 February by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at a low-key event. The entire electricity system of the building in capital Islamabad has been shifted to solar …
As planetary boundaries are rapidly being approached, humanity has little room for additional expansion and conventional intensification of agriculture, while a growing world population further spreads the food gap. Ample evidence exists that improved on-farm water management can close water-related yield gaps to a considerable degree, but its global significance …
Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly …
Earthquakes have greater reach than previously thought. In fact, their ruptures can leap further -- a good bit further than previous research has known. This could have real repercussions for Los Angeles and other seismically active areas of the world. Recent findings about prehistoric and more recent tsunamis off one …
ISLAMABAD: Boating in Rawal Lake, which has been declared illegal due to its polluting effect continues unchecked. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) responsible to control the illegal activity seems helpless. The activity is causing pollution in the dam. Boating in the lake usually takes place without use of life jackets …
ISLAMABAD: WWF Pakistan Senior Director chapter and environmental expert Dr Ejaz Ahmad on Sunday urged the need for the protection and conservation of wildlife in Pakistan, which is most vulnerable to global warming. Dr Ijaz said that wildlife is an important resource with economic, cultural and recreational value to humans, …
A new research paper has suggested applying Holdridge life zones (HLZ) system for forest classification in Pakistan. The classification system forecasts and detects changes in environment on a large scale and helps assess the possible changes in vegetation patterns due to global warming. The study, published in the ‘Pakistan Journal …
A 4.1 magnitude earthquake jolted parts of Punjab including Lahore, Sharaqpur and Sheikhupura Wednesday. The quake was centred near Nankana Sahab at a depth of 10 kilometers, shaking buildings in Lahore, Sheikhupura, Sharaqpur, Phool Nagar, Muridke and adjoining areas. People came out of their homes in panic and started reciting …
