PM on coping with climate challenge
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday, calling the Loss and Damage Fund a realization of climate challenge by the global north, said it was however a must to practically…
US partners with FAO to support Pak farmers
Floods: US partners with FAO to support Pak farmers
ISLAMABAD: US Ambassador Donald Blome announced on Thursday (1st of December, 2022) that the United States, in partnership with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), delivered $8 million of…
Shazia Marri addresses 26th Socialist Int’l Congress
MADRID: Minister for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Shazia Marri on Sunday (27th of Nov 2022) here has urged the world community to take some serious steps for resolving climate…
Two dead as Saudi storm cuts main road to Mecca
RIYADH: At least two people died on Thursday (24th of November, 2022) as heavy rains hit western Saudi Arabia, including the coastal city of Jeddah, delaying flights and forcing schools…
US Envoy Donald Blome visits Quetta
QUETTA: US Ambassador Donald Blome arrived here on Wednesday (23rd of November 2022) to meet the Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, local partners working to advance climate change adaptation, representatives…
Indonesia Earthquake
Indonesia quake toll jumps to 268
CIANJUR: The death toll from an earthquake on Indonesia's main island of Java jumped to 268 on Tuesday, as rescuers searched for survivors in the rubble and relatives started to…
USAID
USAID-ERDA, agri dept to provide wheat seed and fertilizer to flood-affected farmers
ISLAMABAD: USAID's Economic Recovery and Development Activity (USAID-ERDA) and Agriculture, Livestock, and Cooperative Department Govt of KP will provide 743 tons of certified wheat seed and 1,485 tons of fertilizer…
Leopard sighted at Trail 3
Islamabad: Trail 3 closed after leopard was spotted
ISLAMABAD: After spotting of a leopard in Syedpur village of the federal capital, the district administration closed Trail 3 for general public, said a statement issued on Sunday. According to…
PM on COP27 Climate Fund
Climate Justice: Loss and Damage Fund
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took to the twitter to maintain that establishment of loss and damage fund at the UN climate summit is the first pivotal step towards the…
Sanitation and Underground Water
Safe Sanitation Protects Groundwater
KARACHI (UN): World Toilet Day 2022 focuses on the impact of the sanitation crisis on groundwater. UN Secretary General António Guterres in his message on World Toilet Day 2022 stated:…
Sherry on Climate Change
Sherry Rehman on ‘climate finance’ commitments
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday (16th of November, 2022) called for the international monetary commitments and related implementations on loss and damage and adaptation…
UN United Nations
G20: UN chief urges to back moves to address global crises
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Monday urged the world's largest economies, the G20, to support his initiatives to address climate change, sustainable development, the worldwide food and energy crises,…
Sherry Rehman
COP27 must put people at heart of its agenda: Sherry Rehman
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: “People and their lives, particularly vulnerable communities, must be at the heart of COP27, along with the will to put them back on their feet as they face…
Climate Justice & Int'l Law Obligations
FUUAST organizes discussion on Climate Justice
KARACHI: Federal Urdu University of Arts Science and Technology (FUUAST), Dept of Int'l Relations and National Trade Union Federation organized a discussion on Climate Justice & Int'l Law Obligations, here…
Delayed climate justice ‘death sentence’ for vulnerable
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Fed Min for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman has noted that there was a race against time now for adapting to the Climate Crisis. She said those with…
FMs of Pakistan and France
Franco-Pak Foreign Ministers on Climate Change
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: According to the FO of Pakistan, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and his French counterpart Catherine Colona have expressed desire to collaborate on addressing the challenges of climate…
PM and Crown Prince KSA
PM meets Crown Prince KSA
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: in a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on Tuesday (8th of Nov 2022), expressed confidence that the…
Shehbaz Sharif on COP 27 Sharm El-Sheikh
Inclusion of ‘loss, damage issue’ as COP-27 agenda item
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday (8th of Nov 2022) underscored that the vulnerable developing countries such as Pakistan, were already witnessing unprecedented devastating impacts of climate…
PM Speaks at COP 27
Pakistan suffered $ 32B damage due to recent floods
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Monday (7th of November, 2022) said that according to the Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA), the total estimated damage caused by the…
COP 27 (Sharm El-Sheikh)
COP 27: World leaders gather for climate talks
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: World leaders gathered Monday(7th Nov, 2022) for climate talks in Egypt facing pressure to deepen cuts in emissions and financially back developing countries already devastated by the effects…
UN SG speaks at COP 27 Summit
UN SG: Choose climate ‘solidarity’ or ‘collective suicide’
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: UN chief Antonio Guterres warned world leaders at a climate summit in Egypt on Monday that humanity faces a stark choice between working together or "collective suicide" in…
COP 27
At COP27, Pakistan to lead push for making polluting countries compensate poor nations
WASHINGTON: Flood-hit Pakistan, which heads an influential bloc of nations at the United Nations, is set to lead the push at the upcoming U.N. Climate Summit in Egypt for compensation…
PM arrives in Egypt
Pakistan to take part in climate change debate
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: PM Shehbaz Sharif and FM Bilawal Bhutto Zardari are all set to participate in the COP-17. At the invitation of the Egyptian Presidency of COP-27, the prime minister…
UN's COP27 climate summit 2022
UN climate summit opens with warning against ‘backsliding’
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday (6th of November, 2022) in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations…