In the region, South Asia is likely to have the most people displaced by climate change due to the density of its populations and its vulnerability to the effects of climate change, he added. In particular, he noted that Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan are likely to be the most affec...
“Climate change has caught mountainous communities unaware with no education to assess the enormity of the crisis and no strategy on how to cope with it,” Torwali said. This is exacerbated by the fact that the climate strategy ofGilgit-Baltistanportrays migration, and remittances from those tha...
In Pakistan, which is grappling with an economic crisis and a political meltdown, a cholera outbreak in the southwest sent the local government scrambling, just as it was trying to quell massive forest fires. 巴基斯坦正在努力应对经济危机和政治崩溃,该国西南部正在暴发霍乱,使还在努力扑灭大规模山火的...
China helped Pakistan to avert a major food crisis in 2020 by providing comprehensive and timely support to counter locust swarms in 2020, Sohail Ahmed, chairman of Department of Entomology at the University of Agriculture Faisalabad, told Xinhua. Further cooperation should be sought in hybrid crops...
This article draws on Oxfam's work in Pakistan. It explores the burdens of addressing the climate crisis on the unpaid labour of poverty-stricken women in Badin, Pakistan. A case study methodology has been used to highlight the experiences of four women farmers in Badin and understand the ...
Climate Crisis: Himalaya Glacier Melt Feeds India’s and Pakistan’s Rivers, but 80% of Lower Level Glacier Mass could be gone this Century Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A newreport on icein the Himalayas issued byThe International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)finds that...
“Let’s stop sleepwalking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change. Today, it’s Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country.” - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Rehman told Turkish news outlet TRT World that by the time the rains recede, “we could well have one fourth or one third of Pakistan under water.” “This is something that is a global crisis and of course we will need better planning and sustainable development on the ground. … We’...
To save our only planet and to safeguard the future development of humankind, all countries need to make concerted efforts to deal with the climate crisis in line with the principle of "common but differentiated responsibilities."■ This photo shows the closing plenary of the COP27 climate change...
Since the United States and the EU have imposed an embargo on Russian oil and gas after the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the current energy crisis in Europe has forced many countries to fall back to traditional energy sources such as coal. At the same time, explosions in the No...