Tag: Climate Crisis

Reimagining US-Pakistan Relations Through Climate Change Cooperation

Pakistan faces an existential crisis from climate change, despite contributing less than 1% to global emissions. Reimagining US-Pakistan relations through climate change cooperation offers a pathway to resilience, climate finance, and regional stability while advancing US global climate leadership.

COP29 and G20: Defining Global Cooperation Crisis

COP29 and G20 spotlight global challenges in climate finance, justice, and governance amid geopolitical tensions.

Climate Cash Flow: Will COP29 Deliver for a Future on Fire

Will COP29 deliver for a burning future? Baku summit focuses on climate finance, adaptation, and bridging the North-South gap.

Melting Glaciers: A Threat to South Asian Topography

Melting glaciers in South Asia are triggering a profound transformation with far-reaching consequences. Pakistan\’s vulnerability to this crisis comes sharply into focus, as shrinking ice sheets threaten water resources, agricultural stability, and even national security.

South Asia Fights Air Pollution Health Crisis

Death toll in South Asia due to air pollution boomed as nine out of ten most vulnerable cities in South Asia.

COP27: Unraveling ‘Loss and Damage’

From the reluctance of the rich to the pressure of the vulnerable, the journey to COP27 has been one of prevailing duplicity and limitations, notably from the major contributors to emissions, on whom the ultimate success of climate justice depends.

Climate Crisis and Floods: Natural Disaster or Own Folies?

Despite the attention the world is now giving to the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, the question of responsibility and early prevention is still not ruled out. Lack of preventive strategies at home and indifference of the global powers to climate change remain the leading factors that brought on this havoc on vulnerable populations.

Heat Alert – South Asia Facing Intense Heat Waves

The April-May heatwaves in Pakistan and India highlight climate change effects, with rising risks to health and food security.

Blazing Horizon: Sherani Forest Fire Extinguished After Days of Fire-Fighting Operation

On Wednesday, 18th May 2022, a blaze in the chilgoza forest of Sherani District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan started turning into a large scale wild fire. The forest nestled in the Koh-i-Sulaiman mountains gradually began to be consumed and burnt down by the expanding fire. The Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) along with […]