Catalysing climate action
The 29th annual Conference of the Parties (COP29) concluded with a renewed sense of urgency and a litany of commitments aimed at accelerating global climate efforts. Held in the vibrant…
Climate action as equity
HOW can Pakistan overcome the credibility gap and attract international climate finance? Our economic managers failed to provide safe, profitable, and attractive opportunities to 1,700 potential investors in the country…
The climate action conversation
Last week, Pakistan’s Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman had a very tough job ahead of her. In a milieu of the wealthy and the extremely wealthy, she had to…
Climate action
EIGHT years after the Paris Agreement, the global community is nowhere near reducing emissions to keep temperature increase within the safe threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. According to…
Climate action leadership
HOW is Pakistan gearing up for COP28 that begins on Nov 30 in Dubai? The foremost challenge for the interim government is determining how best to harness the momentum that…
Climate action
CONTRARY to initial doubts, apprehensions, and explicit criticism from activists and environmentalists, COP28, set to conclude today, seems to have proved itself productive and on point. Before the start of…
Advancing climate action
The theme of ‘International Day for Preservation of Ozone 2024’, observed on September 16, was ‘Advancing climate action’. The day commemorates the signing of the Montreal Protocol in 1987 to…
Leveraging climate action for economic resilience
In the intricate web of global economics; the fusion of climate action, economic stability, and international collaboration has emerged as a cornerstone for sustainable development. For Pakistan, a nation at…
Climate action and global security
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres recently warned: “Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end three-degree temperature rise”. He is right. Unless we act decisively – beginning at the…
Urgent climate action
In view of the current global environmental turmoil and the intermittent El-Nino effect culminating into unexpected climate change to which Pakistan only adds one per cent carbon into the ozone…
