Climate-smart initiatives
It’s a bit strange to be thinking about climate smart potatoes when climate action and climate smart agriculture are the buzzwords of the day. Educating the higher authorities about the…
Preemptive action
It is Pakistan’s fault that it has never prioritized climate change and environmental issues since its creation 75 years ago. Whether the climate crisis is due to natural calamities or…
Pakistan’s climate crisis
Every year, we are seeing new undeniable climate events, clear evidence that accelerated climate change is here. Droughts are intensifying, oceans are acidifying and with the fast melting of the…
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…
The complexity of climate change
It is late October in the autumn of 2014. That time and the scenery are still firmly etched in my memory. The place is Trimmu Barrage in District Jhang in…
The climate threat
“We are close to the tipping point – where global warming becomes irreversible” — Stephen Hawking Pakistan is perilously caught in the eye of a perfect climate storm. It is…
The climate threat
For many of the country’s Generation Z, they have never seen anything as devastating and horrendous as the ongoing floods. At the time of writing this piece, one-third of Pakistan…
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…
Global action
My professor Dan Schrag taught us a valuable lesson: climate change is a global problem and requires collective global action. He would stress that we should not address emissions in…
Radical action
During the past several years it has become clear that the international climate negotiations are failing to address the climate crisis. Existing policies have us on track for 3.2 degrees…
