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: Approximately 60 percent women and children are suffering from iron deficiency in Karachi suburbs due to poverty and low quality food, said Medical Superintendent, Sindh Government Hospital New Karachi Capt (r) Qaiser Sultan on Saturday. Talking to PPI, Dr Qaiser said Sindh Government New Karachi Hospital is situated in …
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a joint action committee comprising officers of different departments to prevent, control and manage hepatitis cases in the Punjab. The committee will prepare a joint action plan and SOPs for hepatitis B & C on the pattern of dengue control programme. It …
ISLAMABAD: Emissions from the steel mills in the capital’s industrial area is polluting the air, residents breathe, and gradually destroying the environment. Early each morning, the dense black and white smoke from these mills combines to become a grayish haze which hangs over sectors I-8, I-9 and I-10 and the …
Islamabad—Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan has directed senior officials of the ministry to closely collaborate with the provincial governments and stakeholders to pursue strong climate vulnerability case of Pakistan at the upcoming United Nations’ global climate conference. Mushahidullah khan will head the delegation to the climate conference. …
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan expressed his resentment over non-serious attitude and response of the rich polluting countries in tackling global warming and extending financial and technical support to the poor countries boost their climate-resilience against unavoidable climate change. Addressing the national consultative workshop on environment, …
ISLAMABAD - Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Wednesday announced a $19 million aid package for Pakistan that includes help for border areas hit by conflict and natural disasters. Bishop made the pledge during a two-day visit to Islamabad, where she held talks with Adviser to Prime Minister on …
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday inaugurated the country's first solar power plant, the latest fruit of increasingly close cooperation with China and a step towards an electoral promise to end crippling power cuts. The solar park in Punjab province produces 100 MW of power, which will be increased …
Pakistan's provinces will create committees to oversee reductions in carbon emissions and support climate change adaptation, in a push to implement a long-stalled national climate policy. Under an agreement reached at the first meeting of the National Climate Change Policy Implementation Committee in late April, climate change sections will be …
Pakistan's forests are shrinking rapidly because of illegal logging. Coupled with land erosion and the threat of climate change, one northern province has decided to start a massive tree-planting effort. They plan to plant a billion trees over the next four years, and are investing approximately $150m into the scheme. …
This work explores the implications of a potential international climate agreement on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Governments are due to negotiate a climate agreement at the 21st Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP21) in Paris, France at …
FAISALABAD: Megawatt New Energy Technology, a Chinese company, is in the process of installing 10,000 solar pumps ranging from 4 to 7.5 kilowatts in Balochistan, said the company’s director of sales, Xianqing Luo. “China is playing an important role in overcoming the energy crisis plaguing Pakistan by extending technical support …
HARIPUR: One more child was diagnosed with polio virus in district hospital Haripur on Wednesday. According to hospital sources, one-and-half year old child who suffered from fever was brought in the hospital for treatment from Hattar area of Haripur and doctors conformed polio virus in the child after taking his …
Just as modern nation-states struggle to manage the cultural and economic impacts of migration, ancient civilizations dealt with similar external pressures and set policies to regulate people’s movements. In one of the earliest urban societies, the Indus Civilization, mechanisms linking city populations to hinterland groups remain enigmatic in the absence …
The Toolkit is a practical reference manual that identifies many of the essential elements that need to be considered before and after inefficient lighting phase-out schemes have been initiated, including all of the elements of the en.lighten integrated approach.
PESHAWAR: Adviser to Chief Minister on Environment Ishtiaq Urmar on Monday told the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly that the provincial government has approved the Scientific Management Policy for protection of forests in the province. He was replying to the question of JUI-F MPA Zarin Gul during the question-hour in the provincial …
Even as J&K; is in the process of pr\eparing a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for a new flood spill channel from Dogripora in south Kashmir to Wular in north Kashmir for preventing floods, the Central Water Commission (CWC) has asked the state government to study the retaining capacity of the …
More than 21 per cent people in the province were living below the poverty line, Zakat and Ushr Minister Malik Nadeem Kamran said on Thursday. The government is determined to improve the situation, he said in his address at the Punjab Philanthropy Forum-2015. Acting Governor Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Benazir …
LAHORE: World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-Pakistan) launched its climate change report titled Climate Change Adaptation in the Indus Ecoregion: A Micro-Econometric Study of the Determinants, Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Adaptation Strategies on Wednesday. The report was produced in collaboration with the London School of Economics-Political Science (LSE-PS) and …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the six countries of Asia selected by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to scale up investments in urban climate change resilience, especially for the urban poor, it was learnt here on Wednesday. ADB under the Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF) will enhance investments across …
PESHAWAR - Environmentalists are observing an alarming decrease in number of migratory birds visiting Pakistan every year during their long journey from Siberia to India crossing Pakistan. The migration journey starts from Siberia in Russia from September and ends in India at Bahartpure via Central Asian Republics, Afghanistan and Pakistan, …
