Tag: Climate change
Pak 3rd on Global Climate Risk Index: UNDP
Some of Pakistan’s top thinkers lined up to speak about how climate change affects Pakistan and what can be done about it at an...
Climate change fans global security crisis, says Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Saturday that climate change was a threat to global security and has inflamed volatile situations from Europe’s...
India to ‘hike green energy targets’ to combat climate change
India promises to hike renewable energy targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, in long-awaited pledges to be announced next week for upcoming UN...
DiCaprio joins growing movement to divest from fossil fuels
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday joined more than 400 institutions and 2,000 individuals who have promised to divest from fossil fuels, as new...
Experts call for urgent solutions to tackle climate change
Karakoram International University (KIU), Gilgit organized a three-day conference on “Mountains and Climate Change – Resources, Challenges and Opportunities for Better Life and Livelihoods.”
Gilgit-Baltistan...
Greenhouse gases major cause of rising temperatures: experts
Environmental experts on Wednesday termed rapid increase of greenhouse gases as a major cause of rising temperatures in the federal capital.
Climate and environment experts...
US lawmaker to boycott Pope speech over climate change
A US lawmaker said he will boycott Pope Francis’s historic speech before Congress next week because the Catholic leader will likely focus on climate...
Global community urged to guard ozone layer for sustainability of life
Experts urged the global community on Thursday to take all-out measures to substantially mitigate emissions of carbon gases which are the key factor in...
‘You want economic growth? Pay attention to climate change!’
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Mushahidullah Khan, has said that UN’s recent report ‘Economic Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific’ has concluded...
Ignore climate change, welcome disaster: Mushahid Ullah Khan
Federal Minister for Climate Change Mushahid Ullah Khan warned that failing to adapt to rapidly changing weather patterns for countries like Pakistan and mitigating...
Kerry to stress climate change action in Indonesia speech
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The United States Secretary of State John Kerry will on Sunday issue a clarion call for the world to do to more to combat...
Poorest regions will be hardest hit, says WB report on climate...
All nations will suffer the effects of a warmer world, but it is the world’s poorest countries that will be hit hardest by food...
Climate change may lead to much warmer NY
In the coming century will New York warm up by three degrees Fahrenheit and have a climate like Richmond, Virginia?
Or will it warm...
Senate body recommends measures to cope with disasters
The Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change on Monday recommended numerous measures to the government for coping with disasters as it said that Pakistan...
Conference on green economy starts tomorrow
A two day conference titled ‘National Consultation on Green Economy’ will be held on 18-19 May where delegates including Foreign Minister and Minister for...
Climate change to cost Pakistan $14 billion each year: ex-minister
The climate change could cost the economy of Pakistan up to 14 billion dollar each year for natural disasters and other losses which is...
Pakistan, India asked to take on climate change challenges
Climate stakeholders adopted a resolution on Wednesday, on the concluding day of the ‘Track-II Dialogue on Climate Change for Peace’, which was jointly organised...
