Year: 2023

‘Nature can’t be blamed for health problems created by man-made environmental hazards’ November 1, 2023 KARACHI: The topic of the talk organised by the Urban Resource Centre (URC) on Tuesday was ‘The adverse effects on health due to weather changes’ and the speaker, Dr Tipu Sultan of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), changed it completely by showing a mirror to all those who were under the impression that they were occasionally under the weather because of nature. Speaking about such people, he said that most common health issues that come…

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Karachi, November 1, 2022: “Climate change is a global issue but in Pakistan’s case it is evident that climate change is happening now and not a phenomenon that only our future generations will experience,” said Amir Paracha, OICCI President at the 2nd Pakistan Climate Conference on November 01. This is the second consecutive year that the OICCI has organized the Climate Conference with the aim for a better climate action in the country. Despite being responsible for less than 1% of the world’s planet-warming gases, Pakistan is the eighth most…

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Abu Dhabi, 30 October 2023: The COP28 Presidency, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) launched a joint report today on the sidelines of the Pre-COP event in Abu Dhabi, titled Tripling Renewable Power and Doubling Energy Efficiency by 2030: Crucial Steps Towards 1.5 °C. The report provides actionable policy recommendations for governments and the private sector on how to increase global renewable energy capacity to at least 11,000 GW while also doubling annual average energy efficiency improvements in the target period. This falls under the…

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