Saleem Shaikh

Over the last five years, public infrastructure in Pakistan has suffered significant damages because of climate change-induced disasters, particularly floods and cloudburst-triggered heavy rains. These disasters have undermined the socio-economic gains achieved as a result of budgetary allocations worth billions. Educational sector has particularly suffered. Thousands of public schools across the country have been damaged–at […]

Promoting cycling culture as a healthy and eco-friendly mode of transport is a potentially effective way to reduce escalating levels of carbon emissions of the transport sector in Pakistan. With Pakistan’s public transport system already in dismal shape and many cities without a decent transport facility, more and more people are buying smaller cars and […]

In Pakistan women who constitute the majority of the poor are among the most vulnerable to the detrimental impacts of climate change, particularly in rural areas. However despite that, they are also vital to solutions to the impact. The International Women’s Day, marked on March 8 this year, reiterated the need for encouraging effective action […]

The future of mountains and mountain people got a long needed boost at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, commonly known as Rio+20, which concluded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 22. The Rio+20’s declaration, ‘Our common vision’, adopted by heads of state and top key representatives from around the world, recognised the global […]

There is a roaring debate going on in some sections of the country over potential and actual benefits of the genetically modified (GM) crop technology’s use amid conflicting claims of the yield gains and losses in GM cotton. The GM crop biotechnology’s use in the country is limited currently to only the cotton crop. According […]