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Climate justice

Amid a global economic and security crisis, all eyes have been on the COP27 agreement. The summit has approved the setting up of a climate fund – to arrange finances…

Seeking climate justice?

The proponents of Pakistan’s search for climate justice must visit an impressive case of the last century that prompted a global change of hearts and minds and led to the…

The way to climate justice

The United Nations twice launched a flash appeal to help flood victims and survivors in Pakistan. The bad news is not that the revised appeal of $860 million is nowhere…

Climate justice

Both Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari have passionately presented Pakistan’s case before the international community and world leaders at the 77th UNGA annual session in New…

A case for climate justice

Pakistan is among the world’s top 10 nations most affected by climate change. Global warming is caused by uncontrolled and unabated greenhouse gases emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – mostly…

Road to climate justice

DELIVERING the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture 2020, Antonió Guterres, the UN secretary general, said that inequality defines our time. Because of globally growing extreme inequalities, the world system is at…

The Path To Climate Justice

The path to climate justice

This piece is a response to ‘We Don’t Have Time to End Capitalism – But Growth Can Still Be Green’, published in inthesetimes.com by Tobita Chow. While the question of…

Climate Justice

Climate justice

Seas rise in the Pacific islands, forcing people to leave their homes.      A fracking company takes a fancy to a drought stricken area in South Africa.       Hurricanes cripple entire countries. …

Climate change, debt, and inflation

“If you’ve been feeling confused and as though everything is impacting on you all at the same time, this is not a personal, private experience,” says historian Adam Tooze. “This…