Economy
Post Covid-19: New World Order
The world is going through a parlous situation at the moment. Everything seems to be obscure and dubious. The current state of affairs for every nation include trying to stop the spread of Covid-19 while […]
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Environment
Deforestation: Consequences of Pandemic Proportions
1 word. 11 letters. 5 syllables. As of January 2020, it is the most powerful word in the world. A word that always follows the five second countdown to the hourly news headlines, compels us […]
Economy
A Sceptical Look at Climate Action in the Wake of Coronavirus
The end of March saw an influx of images of wild animals roaming cities freely as an amusing by-product of the otherwise devastating consequences of the spread of Covid-19. There was a goat snacking on […]
Analysis
The COVID-19 ‘Offset’
Over the past few weeks, the world has been under a semi-lockdown, courtesy of COVID-19. Only necessary markets remain open, traffic is dwindling like passive hair loss and people are visibly off the streets – […]
Environment
2050 Climate Prospects – Are We Heading Toward A New Dark Age?
Voltaire must have been referring to nature and climate when he wrote, “Men argue. Nature acts”. At a time when people are required to consider forest-fires, bushfires, and heavy rainfalls in course of planning holiday […]
Environment
Global Governance: Nuclear Weapons Technologies and Climate Change
Technological development creates governance challenges beside other problems at global, regional and state levels. We increasingly seem to lack the intellectual or political resources to deal with these challenges. The diversity of actors in the […]
Environment
Why is Pakistan on the Frontline of Climate Change?
“Pakistan is the 7th most vulnerable country to climate change”, say the headlines on Dawn in November, 2017. The study that claimed this, was conducted by a think tank called Germanwatch. They published another report […]
Environment
The Urgent Need for Climate Adaptation and Resilience in Pakistan
According to the Climate Risk Index for 2018 published by the German Watch Think Tank, Pakistan ranks as the world’s 7th country most vulnerable to climate change. This risk index analyzed the total damage caused […]
Environment
Water Scarcity: 5 Things Pakistanis Need to Understand
Pakistan’s scarcity issue is not only attributed to the shortage of water resources. On the contrary, it is the division and utilization of these very resources that must be rethought to prevent future disasters. Building […]
Environment
Water: Sacred or Sacrilegious
Riverbanks have always been the cradle of civilizations. Ease of access to water and abundance of this resource has been one of the major development tools in the history of human progress. With manifold increase […]