Climate Change
Sherry Rehman says transport sector largest contributor to air pollution.
Updated 30 Jan, 2025 11:21am
Washington typically provides 22pc of the UNFCCC's secretariat’s budget.
Published 29 Jan, 2025 08:03am
Increasing demand for food production coupled with inefficient irrigation practices is exacerbating water scarcity.
Published 27 Jan, 2025 06:24am
America’s exit from the Paris Accords will have serious consequences.
Published 26 Jan, 2025 06:55am
Tells MUET graduates at convocation they can build environmentally sustainable cities.
Published 26 Jan, 2025 06:54am
74pc of affected pupils hailed from lower-middle income countries.
Updated 25 Jan, 2025 10:08am
Recent outbreaks of the disfiguring, sandfly-spread disease are the result of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s perfect storm of circumstances.
Updated 24 Jan, 2025 02:26pm
Physicians explore how One Health concept can better help address challenges faced by researchers, decision-makers and health professionals.
Updated 22 Jan, 2025 06:39pm
Meeting discusses steps to develop “robust” EV charging network in major urban, rural areas of Sindh.
Updated 22 Jan, 2025 11:06am
New president signs raft of orders, withdrawing birthright citizenship, ending sanctions against West Bank settlers.
Updated 22 Jan, 2025 08:22am
Downpour was 40pc lower than normal between Sept 24 and Jan 15; El Niño likely to persist till March.
Updated 22 Jan, 2025 08:16am
Tech-focused groups are launching new orbiters as space launches get cheaper.
Updated 19 Jan, 2025 10:14am
As the climate crisis rewrites the rules of survival, Pakistan’s judiciary emerges as an unlikely guardian of climate justice, attempting to redefine it as a constitutional obligation.
Published 17 Jan, 2025 12:42pm
Initiative to help channel global climate change commitments to finance green micro, small firms.
Published 16 Jan, 2025 08:50am
The struggle to save the Indus dolphin is, at its core, a fight to save the river itself, and the millions whose lives run through it.
Updated 28 Nov, 2025 11:59am
Countries in the Global North veer away from climate action towards fossil fuels as major political shifts take place.
Updated 13 Jan, 2025 10:04am
Climate expert calls the milestone a "rude awakening to key political actors to get their act together”.
Published 10 Jan, 2025 08:19pm
From stubble burning to toxic smog, Pakistan's air pollution crisis threatens its future; the only way it can rise above the haze is through strategic action, with bold policy changes and climate diplomacy at the forefront.
Updated 05 Oct, 2025 03:25pm
This follows a “prolonged period of record to near-record daily lows” in 2023 and 2024.
Published 09 Jan, 2025 06:30am
World may already have hit 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming above average pre-industrial temperature — beyond which it is at risk of irreversible climate change, scientists say.
Published 07 Jan, 2025 07:55am
Study finds correlation between climate disasters suffered in the country and a warming of ocean surface temperatures.
Published 05 Jan, 2025 07:37am
Five strategic opportunities will need to be seized during the year.
Updated 02 Jan, 2025 08:56am
The smog in Lahore, heatwaves all across, the north’s melting glaciers, and widespread floods illustrate a country under siege from environmental forces.
Published 01 Jan, 2025 09:12am
After an underwhelming COP29, Pakistan is focusing on launching carbon markets, engaging with other vulnerable nations.
Published 30 Dec, 2024 08:02am
Pakistan cannot afford to wait for global consensus to act. We are indeed living in what scientists describe as “a dangerous new era”.
Updated 30 Dec, 2024 08:42am
Air quality oscillates between "healthy" and "very unhealthy" due to construction projects, vehicular emissions, brick kilns.
Published 30 Dec, 2024 06:00am
From prosperous European cities to overcrowded slums in Africa, no place was spared by disasters. The year was the hottest in history.
Updated 28 Dec, 2024 08:45am
Cabinet green-lights carbon markets policy to pave way for voluntary markets, cooperative approaches.
Published 28 Dec, 2024 07:24am
Scientists warn of more "dangerous heat days" unless the world transitions away from fossil fuels.
Published 27 Dec, 2024 07:47pm
Fragile beginning to 2025 offers world a last chance to course correct, realign growth with sustainability.
Published 27 Dec, 2024 08:56am
