Tag: Climate

Delegations from Pakistan and India have stressed to work together to address challenges to climate change to achieve food and energy security, sustainable livelihoods,...

While all coastal cities face challenges from climate change, those with a population of over 10 million could be substantially affected. These cities include Karachi,...

Only recently the world leaders have agreed to take measures to control climate change in a conference in Durban. But what goes on on...

A marathon UN climate conference ended on Sunday with a raft of decisions aimed at rolling back greenhouse-gas emissions while helping poorer countries cope...

Climate change is the greatest threat to modern times and is greatly affecting socio-economic sectors like health, food production, energy consumption and security and...

Veteran watchers of the UN climate process differ in their predictions for talks opening in Durban on Monday, but all foresee an outcome falling...

The Japan International Cooperating Agency (JICA) and Board of Investment (BOI) on Friday signed MoU for strengthening investment climate in Pakistan to enhance the...

Despite the pleas of the members of the Labour Party of Pakistan (LPP), there has been little response by any state authorities regarding the...

A mission launched to measure changes in the Himalayas due to climate change, has claimed that the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest,...

Climate change is generating an “unholy brew” of extreme weather events that threaten global security, the UN chief said Wednesday as the Security Council...

Speakers on Monday warned that emerging global climate change impacts are likely to accelerate the process of desertification, land degradation and drought, while livelihood...

Weather conditions In Pakistan are worsening as the country is under a strong, heavy and unending spell of sweltering heat waves which has restricted...

Punjab Minister of Agriculture and Forests Malik Ahmad Ali said global deforestation and degradation had a negative role towards climate change for which initiatives...

President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the World Environment Day is a wake-up call for the world community to realize that land and...

ISLAMABAD - Women shall be given sufficient representation in decision-making processes on climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies as no national or international policy framework on climate change addresses gender issue. The experts on environment and other speakers stressed this while discussing absence of gender perspective in policy framework on climate change in Pakistan here a seminar "Climate Change and Gender: Prospects and Challenges" that was organized by

KARACHI - Pakistan's kinnow export is likely to slide by around 50,000 tonnes this year against targeted export of 0.260 million tonnes. Sources stated that this decline is triggered by unfavourable climate and less production in the country. Production of kinnow has fallen by a considerable 25 percent in the current season, standing at around 1.4 million tonnes against last season's production of 1.8 million tonnes.
Talking to Pakistan Today, former All Pakistan Fruit and

PARIS - A first meeting to set down the ground rules of a fund to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries exposed to climate change has been postponed, a UN official said on Thursday. Representatives from 40 countries had been scheduled to meet in Mexico City on March 14 and 15 for the maiden meeting of a panel designed to breathe life into the Green Climate Fund (GCF) established last December.
"The meeting has been postponed," a spokesman for the UN Framework