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Islamabad: Governor Punjab Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar will be the chief guest at the 13th Annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Summit and Awards-2021 being held here at a hotel on February 25. The National Forum for Environment and Health (NFEH) organizes the event every year to thoroughly discuss the issues related to corporate philanthropy in the country. The forum also discusses the options to combine the CSR resources to help out the deprived masses and leading charitable causes in the country in the best possible manner. The event is also the…

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Secretary Environment, Forests and Wildlife, Shahidullah Khan inaugurated the spring plantation campaign by planting an olive tree at Bajaur tribal district. Chief Conservator North One, Conservator Merged Areas, Deputy Commissioner Bajaur and Conservator Wildlife were also present on the occasion. Speaking on the occasion, the secretary said forests play an important role in making the environment clean besides combating environmental pollution, desertification and climate change and urged people to actively participate in afforestation campaign by planting trees. He said that the PTI government’s flagship 10 Billion Trees Afforestation Project has…

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The Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has issued an Environmental Protection Order (EPO) to Messrs Creek Marina Builders and Developers, directing the company to suspend construction of a building on Abdul Sattar Edhi Avenue in Defence Housing Authority phase-VIII, it emerged on Tuesday. According to the EPO, the company has been served the notice over its failure to file the mandatory environmental impact assessment (EIA), as required by the law. Besides, SEPA director-general Naeem Ahmed Mughal has maintained in the EPO that the builder in question was offered an opportunity of a…

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Prime Minister Imran Khan kicked off the Spring Tree Plantation Campaign 2021 and inaugurated Islamabad’s first ever Miyawaki forest on Wednesday. The premier launched the campaign in the capital as part of the federal government’s commitment to fight climate change. Federal Minister for Interior Sheikh Rashid was also present at the plantation ceremony where the premier himself planted a chir pine tree. Speaking of the Miyawaki method, the PM said last week, “I have launched urban forestry on the lines of Miyawaki technique in Japan where the trees grow 10 times faster and 30 times…

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ISLAMABAD: As the circular debt continues to plague the energy chain, the government plans to decentralise the power sector in order to incentivise devolved generation and distribution in future under the new National Electricity Policy 2021. According to a draft of the policy, all rules/regulations shall be made in a manner which shall ensure decentralisation of the power sector in order to incentivise devolved generation and distribution in future. It further revealed that stranded costs of the power sector have been observed as counterproductive for future investments. In this regard, viable solutions…

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