Improved electricity access can reduce Pakistan’s climate burden: WB report on November 16, 2017Bonn: “Climate change is a threat multiplier and we need to invest in this area in every development plan”, said Ali Tauqeer Sheikh, the head of LEAD-Pakistan, at a side event held in Bonn on Tuesday during the UN Climate Change Conference 2017. Other speakers at the ‘South Asia’s Hotspots: Impacts of Temperature and Precipitation […]
‘Existing plans can offset carbon emissions by 22 percent in Pakistan’ on November 15, 2017Bonn: “Pakistan is already doing a lot when it comes to mitigation of climate change impacts. My estimate is that 22 percent of the country’s emissions will be offset by plans in place,” Dr Tariq Banuri, the head of the country’s premiere Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC), told the gathering at a talk held […]