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 …
Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) Pakistan is chalking out a climate change adaptation and mitigation policy for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. "The policy document which is in final stage would provide a blue print for both adaptation and mitigation actions for climate resilient development of KP," said Hasan Akhtar Rizvi, …
Military conflict has been a major challenge in the detection and control of emerging infectious diseases such as malaria. It poses issues associated with enhancing emergence and transmission of infectious diseases by destroying infrastructure and collapsing healthcare systems. The Orakzai agency in Pakistan has witnessed a series of intense violence …
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has drafted the national forest policy and consultation among authorities concerned on it has entered its final stage, according to a senior official of the ministry. The official said on Sunday that the draft had been finalised with the help of all stakeholders. “Revised …
Exposure to ambient air pollution is a major risk factor for global disease. Assessment of the impacts of air pollution on population health and the evaluation of trends relative to other major risk factors requires regularly updated, accurate, spatially resolved exposure estimates. We combined satellite-based estimates, chemical transport model (CTM) …
LAHORE: Dwellers of the provincial metropolis continue to suffer with polluted air while the authorities are lacking interest in redressing the menace, which is a direct threat to human health. The Air Quality Monitoring Systems (AQMS), run by the Punjab Environment Protection Department (EPD), is not working properly, which means …
Climate change is a subject that is not widely discussed in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa even though spending in this regard has increased by 88% over the last four years from Rs13 billion to Rs24.4 billion. While this matter is brushed under the carpet, weather anomalies under the El Nino effect have drastically …
Reckitt Benckiser (RB), manufacturers of Dettol, and the Plan International Pakistan, a developmental sector organisation, have collaborated to design and test a new approach to reduce the incidence of diarrhoea among under-five children by improving the health, hygiene and sanitationconditions. The RB and the Plan recently jointly launched an innovative …
A 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit parts of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, the met office said. The quake's epicenter was determined at Afghanistan's Hindu Kush Mountain range with a focal depth of 186 km, the met office said. Tremors were felt in provincial capital of Peshawar and districts of …
ISLAMABAD: A Senate body has recommended a complete ban on manufacturing and use of plastic grocery bags, one of the major environmental pollutants, in Islamabad. Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change has also recommended the government to ban use of plastic bottles being used by soft drinks manufacturers in the …
The Alternate Energy Development Board (AEDB) has embarked upon an ambitious plan to enhance the energy mix up to 20-25 per cent by adding 3000-3500 megawatt wind-based electricity to the national grid system by 2018. “Out of this, as many as 1,396 megawatt wind-based electricity will include in the system …
ISLAMABAD: Water security in the federal capital is fast becoming a major challenge, and in the next five years it will dangle over the heads of civic authorities like the sword of Damocles. Delay in construction of new reservoirs and overdue rehabilitation of decades-old rusting underground supply network have added …
China and Pakistan on Monday signed a financing agreement on a coal power project located in the Thar Coalfield in Pakistan's Sindh province. The project will cost in excess of 2 billion US dollars, including the exploitation of a 3.8-million-tonne coal mine and the construction of a 660,000-kilowatt power station …
The Transport and Communications Bulletin for Asia and the Pacific is published once a year by the Transport Division of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). The main objectives of the Bulletin are to provide a medium for the sharing of knowledge, experience, ideas, policy …
Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has initiated actions against all alleged violators and filed cases in Environmental Protection Tribunal (EPT) against three steel units, found causing air pollution in Islamabad. There is no Steel Mills and Brick kiln located in residential area of Islamabad, however, it is a fact that …
ISLAMABAD: An amount of $3 billion has been invested in the field of renewable energy over the past one year, indicating the investment potential and interest of investors in the sector. This was said by Chief Executive Officer of the Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB), Amjad Ali Awan, on Sunday. …
As an inescapable concomitant with the traditional route of economic development, Pakistan has been facing natural resource degradation and pollution problems. The unsavory spectacle of air pollution, water contamination and other macro environmental impacts such as water logging, land degradation and desertification, are on rise. All this, in conjunction with …
The employment of a new “worm index” of human development, together with additional published health information, confirms the important role neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) play in hindering the advancement of many of the world’s Muslim-majority countries. Original Source
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) despite being in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) for over two and half years was yet to fulfill its commitment to provide clean drinking water to the people, even in provincial metropolis where majority of population is forced to drink contaminated water. An official of Water Supply …
The epicentre of the quake lay about 300 kms from Kabul near Ashkasham in Afghanistan,according to the United States Geological Survey reported. The tremors of the earthquake were felt in New Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and parts of Pakistan such as Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar. According a news report from …
Climate change-induced changes in snowfall patterns could imperil two billion people who rely on melting snow for their water supply — and developing countries must work to protect citizens from these variations, researchers say. Out of 421 drainage basins studied in the northern hemisphere, a study published on 12 November …
