National emergency
The destruction caused by the 2022 rains and floods in Pakistan is far beyond the scale of devastation that happened in the 2010 floods caused due to climate change. Pakistan…
Simply unliveable
WASIM Umar, a labourer, sits on a charpoy, placed on a road divider in the city of Jacobabad, Pakistan. This is where he sleeps at night. He does so because…
White House mulls new year executive order to bar Huawei, ZTE purchases
President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar US companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China's Huawei…
Pakistan post-Glasgow
The 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) closed with an unexpected, compromised deal – from ‘phasing out’ of carbon emissions as…
Climate negotiations: More of the same
They came; they saw; they hedged their bets and promised to do it all over again next year. Of course, I am speaking of the recently concluded the 23rd Conference…
There is no Planet-B
The Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an annual ritual. The nearly universal members (197 countries) meet every year to discuss…
Climate change crisis and COP26
‘Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement pledged to limit global warming to well below 2°C and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C relative to pre-industrial times.…
Saving our future
This week, world leaders are gathered in Glasgow to define the next 30 years of our response to the climate crisis. Science has shown how precipitously close we are to…
Climate change crisis: more talk than action
‘This is a dire warning that the economic recovery from the Covid crisis is currently anything but sustainable for our climate… Unless governments around the world move rapidly to start…
Digitising climate action
From the Himalayas in the north to the deserts of Balochistan in the west and the mangroves of Sindh in the south, Pakistan’s environmental habitat is spellbinding. But it is…
