Climate emergency
Around mid-April 2019, #extinctionrebellion made headlines globally and for all the right reasons by organizing demonstrations and sit-ins across London to highlight climate breakdown. This acted as a catalyst to…
Climate change: a health emergency
On December 3, the recently concluded United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai marked the celebration of the inaugural ‘Health Day’. This is the first time that the conference has…
A climate crossroads in Baku
It took nearly 29 years to arrive at COP29, held this year in Baku under the auspices of the United Nations. The dream of clean air free from greenhouse effects,…
Climate for change
On October 22, the Climate Refugees Rights and Protection Bill, 2024 was tabled in the National Assembly. If passed into law, Pakistan will become the first country to formally recognise…
Upended by climate
A NEW global stocktaking report released today by Unicef shows that climate change is impacting almost every aspect of child health and well-being, from pregnancy to adolescence. Nowhere is the…
Climate stresses
LAST week offered a juxtaposition that captures Pakistan’s predicament. In Lahore, PTI supporters took to the streets to protest rigging and the lawfare against Imran Khan. Meanwhile, in Balochistan, lashing…
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…
Economic emergency
FOR most Pakistanis, the prevailing economic conditions have unleashed unprecedented hardship. Steep power tariffs and high fuel costs have made everything expensive. Even the basic necessities are now beyond the…
The health-climate nexus
THE clamour by scientists to look at climate change through the health lens is growing louder and more urgent. The numbers are there to justify it, they say. More people…
Climate change and health
THE devastating floods in Pakistan are a manifestation of climate change. Whatever development gains had been made over the decades in the flood-affected districts were washed away within a few days. Pakistan will…
