Climate Change
Says that areas face growing water stress due to rapid urban expansion, deforestation and rising demand.
Updated 28 Mar, 2025 10:41am
Committee expresses strong reservations over the absence of CDA leadership at the meeting.
Updated 26 Mar, 2025 11:31am
Waiting for outside help to arrive will only aggravate our climate challenges and not mitigate them.
Published 24 Mar, 2025 08:21am
Waiting for outside help to arrive will only aggravate our climate challenges and not mitigate them.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:16am
Traditional approaches of post-disaster compensation and international humanitarian aid aren’t enough for disaster-prone Gilgit-Baltistan.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:53am
UN-ESCAP report estimates urban population of Asia-Pacific region to rise by 1.2bn.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 09:10am
World Meteorological Organisation says earth just witnessed hottest 10 years on record.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 08:13am
Prime minister says his government is actively pursuing policies that integrate climate action across all sectors.
Updated 23 Mar, 2025 10:29am
World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan urges govt, civil society and local communities to take collective action to protect wooded areas.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 11:29am
Aurangzeb launches Parwaaz Green Action Bond, says country recognises climate change as existential threat; Earth Hour to be observed tonight.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 09:36am
Rules not finalised even after 8 years, Justice Mandokhail observes.
Updated 22 Mar, 2025 08:23am
Aurangzeb says country received pledges of $10 billion after 2022 floods but only received one-third of that amount.
Published 21 Mar, 2025 02:06pm
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
Published 21 Mar, 2025 06:54am
"On the one hand, fertile farmland is being swallowed up by luxury housing schemes. On the other, farmers are being driven further from their livelihoods. How can we justify this?" questions WWF-P's Hammad Naqi Khan.
Updated 24 Mar, 2025 11:12am
Lahore’s urban planning is a tragic loop — bulldozing farmland, displacing the poor, and destroying the environment — all for soulless real estate. The Ravi Riverfront Project is its latest, most reckless gamble.
Updated 18 Mar, 2025 03:51pm
Reuters Institute survey reveals public "increasingly out of step with changing reality".
Updated 17 Mar, 2025 10:35pm
Clarifies revised framework will not apply to existing net-metered consumers with a valid licence.
Published 13 Mar, 2025 09:17pm
Pakistan needs a systematic transformation of BISP.
Updated 13 Mar, 2025 09:51am
Democrats say the move illegally seizes money allocated for clean energy and transportation for disadvantaged communities.
Updated 13 Mar, 2025 12:03am
Indian cities dominate global pollution rankings in IQAir's annual report.
Published 11 Mar, 2025 01:41pm
Experts say govt's efforts that tackle pollution’s effects, rather than its source, miss the point.
Updated 09 Oct, 2025 01:51pm
Says country needs unity, political stability and social justice in speech marred by noisy sloganeering from opposition members.
Updated 10 Mar, 2025 06:36pm
Unchecked population growth is a pressing issue, especially in water-stressed Balochistan.
Updated 10 Mar, 2025 10:08am
The need to meet climate challenge is even greater when Pakistan is prone to multiple disastrous events at the same time.
Updated 10 Mar, 2025 08:24am
Fungal diseases causing the rout of tree species in region.
Updated 10 Mar, 2025 11:06am
Pakistan’s third NDCs look to balance mitigation and adaptation goals; official, experts call for alternative financing.
Updated 11 Mar, 2025 08:48pm
Climate change is forcing girls into early marriage.
Published 08 Mar, 2025 06:23am
UNDP, China launch project to strengthen resilience of vulnerable communities by creating robust early warning infrastructure.
Updated 08 Mar, 2025 11:33am
Europe’s climate monitor says Feb 2025 was the third-hottest on record, continuing a warming trend since 2023.
Published 07 Mar, 2025 06:47am
China to develop new offshore wind farms, accelerate construction of energy bases.
Published 06 Mar, 2025 09:38am
