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A ‘charter for the environment’ It is a good idea to develop consensus on a long-term environmental vision for Pakistan" The writer is an academic and researcher. He is also the author of Development, Poverty, and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge The Special Assistant to PM on Climate Change has recently floated the idea of trying to get all major political parties in Pakistan to sign an environmental charter. There is no significant commitment to the environment within the manifestos of mainstream political parties. Our ruling parties also tend to undo most innovative initiat...

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to quickly allow U.N. experts to examine an oil tanker moored off the war-torn country’s coast loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil, warning there is a growing risk it could rupture or explode “causing an environmental, economic, maritime and…

With vaccination rates and the mercury climbing, a sense of relief is descending like a cool mist, yet it's a temporary balm.

Climate change will not be fixed without Africa World leaders appear on a video screen during a virtual Climate Summit with world leaders in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., on April 23, 2021. Photo credit: Reuters/Tom Brenner. When Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi spoke at the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate this week, he had the force of the continent behind him, as president of the African Union. And he made clear that all the new emissions-cutting pledges from rich countries were not enough. “It is important that this summit accelerates the mobilization of ad...

Close icon Two crossed lines that form an 'X'. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. Annette Wallgren is program management officer of gender and climate change at the Asia and the Pacific office for the UN Environment Program (UNEP) UNEP Annette Wallgren is program management officer of gender and climate change at the Asia and the Pacific office for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) UNEP has been working in the region to improve access to renewable energy as a way to tackle poverty and gender inequa...