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 …
KARACHI: When top officials of the Sindh wildlife, environment and livestock departments are not serious about undertaking projects to save species going extinct, there is little hope for organisations working in the field. The secretary of the ministry of climate change, Arif Ahmed Khan, admitted that there is a lack …
ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has conceded that Pakistan is becoming a water-stressed country as the availability of per capita water has declined. Irsa told Senate the other day, “It is true that Pakistan is becoming a water-stressed country as the per capita water availability has went down …
Hundreds of demonstrators including shroud wearing people took to the streets in Multan today to protest against a new coal-fired power plant in Muzaffargarh district which would pollute the air and toxic air would not only kill their children but also their agriculture and mango orchards. The demo was organised …
An strong earthquake jolted Islamabad along with north-western parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa early on Thursday morning, Express News reported. According to the meteorological department, the earthquake, measuring 5.5 on the Ricther scale, was felt in the federal capital Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Abbottabad, Chitral and other mountainous regions. According to the United …
In 2000, world leaders agreed on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). MDG 4 called for a two-thirds reduction in the under-5 mortality rate between 1990 and 2015. We aimed to estimate levels and trends in under-5 mortality for 195 countries from 1990 to 2015 to assess MDG 4 achievement and …
Contributions to historical climate change have varied substantially among nations. These differences reflect underlying inequalities in wealth and development, and pose a fundamental challenge to the implementation of a globally equitable climate mitigation strategy. This Letter presents a new way to quantify historical inequalities among nations using carbon and climate …
The federal cabinet has approved accession to the Nagoya Protocol (NP) on access to genetic resources and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from their utilisation. After approval from cabinet, the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) has requested to the foreign ministry to deposit the instrument of accession with …
A study recently conducted by the Institute of Soil Chemistry and Environmental Sciences at the Ayub Agricultural Research Institute (AARI) in Faisalabad says close to 65 per cent of agricultural land in six important cities of the province has become uncultivable because of farmers using water contaminated with industrial waste …
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed serious concerns over poor condition of forests in the country and directed the Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) to initiate prompt remedial measures to control deforestation in the country. The PM Secretariat has also directed the ministry to prepare a summary for consideration of …
PARIS – Diplomats will gather in Bonn from Monday to thrash out the draft of a climate pact to be adopted at a U.N. conference in Paris in December. With just 10 official negotiating days before 195 nations must seal the deal in the French capital, time is running out …
The Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) yesterday claimed improving situation of water availability in 13 union councils of the PP-06. The water supply system of the 13 urban UCs was handed over to the WASA by the provincial government in recent past. The government took this step on the recommendations …
A new national policy is being prepared to address issues such as scarcity of water, inequities in its distribution, food insecurity and lack of unified planning and management. The policy, being prepared by the Ministry of Water and Power, aims at improving fresh water use; developing hydropower projects for economic …
Pakistan is among the lowest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, but ranks among the highest in terms of vulnerability to climate change. Its high dependency on the Indus River system makes it particularly vulnerable to the increasing rate of glacial melt and erratic monsoon patterns. The 2010 floods …
PESHAWAR: The provincial government has launched a new solid waste recycling plant to bring pollution down to a minimum. This was stated in a handout issued on Monday. According to the document, this will be the second recycling plant in the country once it is made operational. Why Kohat? “Kohat …
Larkana—Flood in the lower sections of River Indus have affected over 50,000 people in Jamshoro, Sujawal, Thatta. Warnings were also issued to people living in low-lying areas and close to the river bed in Vehari. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the River Indus is currently in high …
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Climate Change has expressed reservations about the Punjab government’s recent initiative of introducing inland transportation through River Indus. The provincial government has set up the Inland Water Transport Development Company (IWTDC) to introduce water transport between various cities on the bank of Indus in Punjab. However, …
ISLAMABAD: Apart from claiming 36 lives and injuring a dozen, the recent floods in Chitral have also affected a population of around 380,000 people, the four per cent of which comprises pregnant women, according to local media reports. According to a report compiled by the National Health Emergency Preparedness and …
Floods across Pakistan have over the past month left at least 202 people dead and injured 157 others affecting nearly 1.5 million people, according to National Disaster Management Authority. Release of waters from Indian reservoirs also means low flood in River Sutlej. The floods have affected 1.358 million people in …
ZURICH: Natural and manmade disasters caused $37.4 billion (34 billion euros) in economic losses during the first half of 2015, proving far less costly than in recent years, reinsurance group Swiss Re said Tuesday. The figure, which combines both insured and uninsured losses, marked a 37-per cent drop from the …
A moderate earthquake in Afghanistan was felt across South Asia on Monday, shaking the ground in Kabul, Islamabad and New Delhi, witnesses said. The epicenter of the magnitude 6 quake was 88 kilometers (54.68 miles) from Feyzabad in Afghanistan, at a depth of 209 kilometers (129.87 miles), the U.S. Geological …
