Time to confront climate change
The 2017 is set to be in the top three hottest years - all in a row - on record, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) report. Although slightly less…
Japan resilient, but climate change making disasters worse: experts
Record typhoons, biblical floods, heatwaves, landslides and earthquakes: this summer, Japan really has seen it all and images of the destruction caused have been beamed around the world. And while…
Climate change looms over giant Saudi energy IPO
As investors weigh up the value of Saudi energy colossus Aramco ahead of its IPO next month, the global drive to contain climate change and waning demand for fossil fuels…
Feeling the climate change?
Unusually, a comparatively large number of Pakistanis, many of them very young people, joint in at the Lahore Climate Strike and the march held for it on Friday, September 20.…
A climate change solution
It was a nightmarish Iowa blizzard in 1998 that made Seth Watkins rethink the way he farmed. Before then, he’d operated his family business – he raises livestock alongside hay…
HEC chief criticises policy on climate change
Pakistan needs to adopt an integrated approach to deal with the problem of climate change. Its current national policy on climate change and the strategy for its implementation are weak,…
Gender and climate change
A few years ago, celebrated Indian film director Krishnendu Bose directed a documentary, ‘The Forgotten Women in India’s Climate Plans’. The film, whilst depicting the unremitting struggle of rural women…
Food in the time of climate change
Worldwide, food production is responsible for almost 24 percent (IPCC assessment report 2014) of the anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, surpassing the industrial and transport sector. The world’s population will suffer…
The elusive climate change strategy
It is a fact that environmental processes aren’t restricted to national borders and are innately transnational in character. Hence, eloquent dialogues and strategic environmental progress can only be made at…
The cure to climate change
As a non-traditional security threat, climate change has continued to produce daunting challenges for Pakistan. The pressing issue of global warming poses a direct threat to the country’s future economic…
