Climate & Environment

LAHORE, Nov 05 (APP): The district administration impounded 369 smoke emitting vehicles and imposed a fine of Rs 8.7 million on various industrial units and vehicles for causing smog and environmental pollution during the last 15 days. Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Ali said on Saturday that […]

Berlin, Nov 4 (AFP/APP):The German government on Friday warned that escalating protests by activists ahead of the UN climate conference in Egypt must not break the law. Deputy government spokesman Wolfgang Buechner said that while Berlin shared the goal of climate protection with the demonstrators, […]

MULTAN, Oct 30 (APP): Environment Protection Department (EPD) has sealed 33 industrial units and brick kilns and also imposed over Rs four lac fine over spreading smoke during last week in connection with ongoing drive to avert from smog. Deputy Director Environment Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Lodhi […]

ISLAMABAD, Oct 28 (APP): Regional chief, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei after visiting flood-affected areas in Pakistan on Friday said climate devastation in Pakistan was the ominous precursor of catastrophes to come. “As the catastrophic climate disaster continues […]

Islamabad, 28 October, 2022 (Online): A meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change was held on Friday. Senator SeemiEzdi chaired the meeting; that was attended by Senator SenatorKhalidaAteeb, Senator KeshooBai, Senator Abida Muhammad Azeem, Senator TajHaider, Senator Kamran Michael and senior officers of […]

London, Oct 28 (AFP/APP):UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday defended his heavily criticised decision not to attend next month’s COP27 climate change summit, saying he had to focus on “pressing” economic problems. In an interview with Sky News a day after Downing Street announced […]

Paris, Oct 27 (AFP/APP): The International Energy Agency said Thursday it believes global energy emissions will peak in 2025 as surging prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine propel investment in renewables. Only last year the IEA said there was “no clear peak in […]

The Hague, Oct 27 (AFP/APP): Climate activists glued themselves to Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” at a Dutch museum on Thursday in the latest stunt targeting famous artworks, but the painting was undamaged. Three men were arrested after the attack at The Hague’s […]

Brussels, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):EU countries and lawmakers on Thursday struck an agreement on legislation to phase out new CO2-emitting vehicles by 2035, negotiators announced. “We have just finished the negotiations on CO2 levels for cars,” tweeted French MEP Pascal Canfin, who heads the European parliament’s […]

Islamabad, Oct 18 (Online): Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif chaired the first meeting of Pakistan Climate Change Council (PCCC), today in Islamabad. The Prime Minister commended the initiative of the Ministry of Climate Change with regard to the constitution of the Climate Change Council and […]