How climate change threatens global agriculture
From the worst drought in forty years in the Horn of Africa to record-breaking heatwaves in Argentina, extreme weather prompted by climate change is threatening to disrupt global agriculture, even…
Climate change crisis and global response
The existential threat of climate change is unfolding fast, and the window of limiting average global temperatures below 1.5C — to avoid any permanent natured changes to climate, something which…
The global economic response to climate change: what’s the plan?
World leaders participating in the virtual Earth Day summit are unanimous: fighting climate change will be good for economic growth worldwide. US President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping and…
Parametric insurance: a game-changer
PAKISTAN stands at the front lines of the global climate crisis. From heatwaves and droughts to devastating floods that threaten lives and livelihoods each year, the economic and human toll of climate…
ICJ on climate change
On July 23 (2025), the International Court of Justice delivered its long-anticipated Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, an epochal declaration that elevates climate responsibility to the pinnacle of international legal…
Pakistan: significant global achievements
Pakistan’s achievements in the global arena demonstrate a country that has consistently sought to defend its sovereignty and assert its strategic position despite immense challenges. The defining moment of national…
Apple lobbies India to change tax law seen hindering its expansion
Apple is lobbying India’s government to modify its income tax law to ensure the company is not taxed for ownership of high-end iPhone machinery it provides to its contract manufacturers,…
The new age of global disruption
The WEF (World Economic Forum) warns of weak growth and fragmentation. In short, the age of hyper-globalization appears to be ending. There are enough grounds to state that the global…
Global investors, blindsided by stunning US comeback, jump back in
An investor stampede out of the United States and into Europe and Asia has reversed course as big money managers ride a wave of AI and interest rate-cut euphoria into…
The false rumble of change
THE world is in ferment but is South Asia feeling the rumble? Europe is on edge. It’s losing the Ukraine war, and the leaders of France, Germany and the UK, to…
