Climate & Environment

Paris, Feb 26 (AFP/APP):For species classified as “extinct in the wild”, the zoos and botanical gardens where their fates hang by a thread are as often anterooms to oblivion as gateways to recovery, new research has shown. Re-wilding what are often single-digit populations faces the […]

WELLINGTON, Feb 23 (Xinhua/APP): New Zealand will hold an inquiry to investigate forestry slash and land use causing woody debris and sediment-related damage in Gisborne and Wairoa, after Cyclone Gabrielle lashed the North Island and killed 11 people over the past week. The two-month inquiry […]

Paris, Feb 22 (AFP/APP): Activists in Paris Wednesday called out two banks involved in the financing of a controversial fossil fuel project in East Africa, part of a coordinated protest across a dozen cities worldwide. About 30 young campaigners from the Stop Total collective demonstrated […]

Antakya, Turkey, Feb 22 (AFP/APP):Half a dozen dump trucks offloaded their potentially hazardous cargo of rubble in a cloud of dust by a roadside in Antakya, Turkey, one of the city’s worst hit by a deadly earthquake. Two weeks after an earthquake devastated southern Turkey, […]

Islamabad, 21 February, 2023 (Online): The Pakistan Environment Protection (Amendment) Bill, 2023 introduced by Senator Seemee Ezdi was passed unanimously by members in a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change that was held on Tuesday at Parliament House Islamabad. Senator SeemiEzdi chaired […]

Washington, Feb 16 (AFP/APP): World Bank chief David Malpass announced Wednesday he would step down nearly a year early, ending a tenure at the head of the development lender that was clouded by questions over his climate stance. The veteran of Republican administrations in the […]

Karachi (PNI) The two-day CFA Pakistan Investor Roadshow which took place in Karachi and was organised by the UK Government and DAI, concluded today. During the second day of the Roadshow, low-carbon developers showcased their projects, ideas, skills and technologies in front of investors and […]

Paris, Feb 15 (AFP/APP): Urban planners are fending off abuse fuelled by conspiracy theories about their “15-minute city” regeneration projects which suspicious social media users claim are the road to “climate lockdowns”. The 15-minute city premise is simple — all amenities such as parks and […]

ISLAMABAD, FEB 09 (Online): Supreme Court (SC) has directed representatives of private companies which has identified forest department land to appear before it in person in the case pertaining to establishment of private housing societies on Forest department Sindh. The court has also called reply […]

ISLAMABAD, February 01, 2023 (Online): Inger Andersen, the Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), has said that each year 400 million tons of plastic products are generated out of which 300 million tons end up in global waste basket recklessly, creating a big […]