ISLAMABAD – Pakistan on Monday praised the adoption of its proposal by the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, COP27 summit, of a funding plan to help climate-affected countries cope with surging losses. Climate negotiators agreed to start discussions on “Matters Relating to Funding ...

ISLAMABAD – The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 has named Pakistani premier Shehbaz Sharif as vice chairman to host the climate crisis on a global level. Report of the country's state-owned news agency said Pakistan has received the honor as result of the effective voice raised ...

Pakistan has joined the European Union and the United States-led ‘Methane Pledge’, a global effort to be launched this year to fight climate change. Special Assistant the Prime Minister on Climate Change Malik Amin Aslam, in a statement, said the pledge is already joined by two dozen ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday reiterated commitment to address climate change by highlighting the goals set by the incumbent government to save future generations. The premier attended a ceremony in connection with the Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Programme in Haripur district ...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB) in a joint study titled “Climate Risk Country Profile” for Pakistan have estimated that Pakistan is facing up to $3.8 billion in annual economic loss due to climate change as temperatures are likely to witness an increase of up to 2.5 degrees ...

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan Saturday expressed concern over not being invited to the international climate change conference. Taking to his Twitter official handle, the premier wrote that ‘I am puzzled at the cacophony over Pakistan not being invited to a climate change conference ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Saturday stressed on a need for developing inclusive, cooperative and forward-looking policies to counter climate change due to its sensitivity. The response comes after US President Joe Biden ignored Prime Minister Imran Khan while inviting 40 world leaders, including ...

WASHINGTON — In the most ambitious U.S. effort to stave off the worst of climate change, President Joe Biden signed executive orders Wednesday to transform the nation’s heavily fossil-fuel-powered economy into a clean-burning one, pausing oil and gas leasing on federal land and targeting ...

Owing to the environment-friendly policies of the incumbent federal government, Pakistan has dropped to 8thplace from 5th on the Long-Term Global Climate Risk Index (GCRI) 2021. A recently published report by Germanwatch link “Global Climate Risk Index 2021 link” has predicted Pakistan to be ...

*Pakistan has been ranked as the fifth-most vulnerable country to climate change, according to the Global Climate Risk Index.* The Global Climate Risk Index, published by *Germanwatch*, elaborated that Pakistan lost 9,989 lives, suffered economic losses worth $3.8 billion and witnessed 152 ...