Climate Change
The key financial issue is the $100 billion a year pledge first made in 2009.
Updated 10 Nov, 2021 08:30am
“We are sinking, but so is everyone else,” the country's foreign minister tells delegates.
Updated 10 Nov, 2021 08:45am
Its first week saw around 100 nations commit to slash their emissions of methane by at least 30 per cent by 2030.
Updated 09 Nov, 2021 08:17am
Director of Nairobi-based climate think tank Power Shift Africa says there had been “two realities” at the conference in Glasgow.
Updated 08 Nov, 2021 10:25am
Delegates from nearly 200 countries are in Glasgow to hammer out how to meet the Paris Agreement goals.
Updated 07 Nov, 2021 09:29am
Delegates of 200 countries are in the Scottish city to discuss how to meet the Paris pact goals of limiting temperature rises.
Updated 06 Nov, 2021 08:01am
British government says pledges of new or earlier deadlines came from countries including Poland, Ukraine, Vietnam and Chile.
Updated 05 Nov, 2021 08:45am
At COP26, The Third Pole spoke with the PM's climate aide Malik Amin Aslam about turning Pakistan’s climate pledges into reality.
Updated 04 Nov, 2021 05:32pm
Funds also promised for a five-year programme aimed at making water use more sustainable, water access fairer.
Updated 04 Nov, 2021 06:50pm
COP26 billed vital for Paris Agreement's continued viability; a number of high-profile no-shows dampen preparations for summit.
Updated 01 Nov, 2021 09:17pm
Pakistan is the eighth most vulnerable country in the world to climate change.
Updated 31 Oct, 2021 07:59am
The trouble for those who are determined to uphold the global status quo is that this very status quo is unsustainable.
Published 27 Oct, 2021 07:27am
“Weather and climate hazards, especially floods and storms, had major impacts in many countries of the region," says official.
Updated 26 Oct, 2021 02:20pm
The initiatives will fund the “circular carbon economy” and provide “clean fuel” to help feed 750 million people worldwide.
Updated 26 Oct, 2021 07:41am
Dubs climate change "one of the biggest crises", says problem was visible 20 years ago but world didn't realise its implications.
Updated 25 Oct, 2021 09:10pm
Disillusionment and anxiety are on the rise among youth as they confront the diminishing prospects of a better tomorrow.
Updated 17 Oct, 2021 10:03am
Cities currently home to half-a-billion people will be swamped by rising sea levels, warn researchers.
Updated 13 Oct, 2021 07:48am
Universities can provide researched information, HEC official says.
Updated 07 Oct, 2021 10:21am
“It is clearer than ever that no political party is doing ... what would be needed to fulfil the Paris Agreement,” she says.
Updated 25 Sep, 2021 10:32am
British PM urges rich nations to help developing countries grow their economies in green, sustainable way.
Updated 21 Sep, 2021 08:46am
UN chief says findings are “an alarming appraisal of just how far off course we are” in meeting the Paris goals.
Updated 17 Sep, 2021 09:08am
Floods have killed nearly 59,000 over the past 50 years and extreme temperatures have killed close to 56,000, report says.
Updated 02 Sep, 2021 09:15am
The group is a network of climate activists who use civil disobedience to spotlight inaction over global warming.
Updated 24 Aug, 2021 08:58am
With the world having failed to collectively act upon the warnings issued time and again, an apocalyptic scenario is at hand.
Updated 16 Aug, 2021 08:22am
Asks officials to calculate the effects of the fires and make plans to reconstruct houses.
Updated 15 Aug, 2021 10:01am
The globe averaged 16.73 degrees Celsius last month.
Updated 14 Aug, 2021 12:20pm
Average global temperature up by 1.1°C; further warming could mean in some places, people could die just from going outside.
Updated 10 Aug, 2021 12:05am
"Only 640 million trees were planted across Pakistan since independence till 2013," regrets the premier.
Updated 09 Aug, 2021 08:03pm
The report will provide most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment yet of the state of Earth's climate.
Updated 07 Aug, 2021 11:07am
Rising temperatures have spawned rare or novel weather phenomena, accompanied by new more-or-less scientific names.
Updated 29 Jul, 2021 01:22pm
