PM Shehbaz urges global action to beat plastic pollution

ISLAMABAD, Jun 4 (APP): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said the government has taken several steps to take Pakistan on the path to sustainable use of resources. He emphasized the urgent need to combat plastic pollution under the global theme “Beating Plastic Pollution.” In a message […]

JEPTs key to renewable energy transition: experts

ISLAMABAD, Jun 3 (APP): Just energy transition partnerships (JETP) are vital to phaseout coal and mobilize investments towards renewable energy transition in Pakistan. This was the crux of a symposium on “Just energy transition in Pakistan” jointly organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) and […]

Taiwan tribe despairs as drought shrinks bamboo crop

Taipei, June 2 (AFP/APP): Hacking at a bamboo plant with a machete, Avayi Vayayana peels back the shoot’s stiff bark as he scans southern Taiwan’s mountains, anxious for more of the money-making crop his Indigenous tribe increasingly struggles to find. Generations of the Tsou tribe […]

UN experts warn of ‘toxic tidal wave’ as plastic pollutes environment

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 02 (APP): The world must beat the “toxic tidal wave” of plastic pollution that threatens human rights, UN experts said Friday, and called for putting rights at the centre of the international treaty on plastic pollution currently under negotiation. The appeal comes […]

UN climate agency picks first woman leader

Geneva, June 1 (AFP/APP): The World Meteorological Organization voted in Argentina’s Celeste Saulo on Thursday to become its first woman leader and steer the WMO’s critical global role in tracking climate change. Saulo, a WMO vice president who has headed Argentina’s weather agency since 2014, […]

Pakistan, Italy agree for joint efforts to tackle climate change

ISLAMABAD 30 May (Online): Pakistan and Italy have agreed to set up a joint framework to tackle climate change and cooperation in water management. The agreement was reached at the 5th meeting of the ‘Pakistan-Italy Joint Economic Commission’ at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

Two environmental samples test positive for poliovirus

ISLAMABAD, May 29 (APP): Two environmental samples collected from Peshawar district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have tested positive for wild poliovirus. The Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed that wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been found in sewage […]