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Ali Tauqeer Sheikh

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Debt, climate, inflation

DEBT, climate, and inflation have in recent years become important planks of the spring meetings hosted by the World Bank and IMF. The agenda for this...

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Climate governance revisited

CLIMATE governance in Pakistan is flawed. It is ineffective and unresponsive to climate threats. Its ability to deliver climate actions to communities...

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Reimagining Irsa

THE Indus River System Authority is under siege. Irsa is the only federal institution in the country charged with regulating, monitoring, and...

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Gearing up for change

THE newly elected government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has a rare window of opportunity to exercise leadership by aligning national climate...

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Acclimatising in 100 days

THE fragility of the political system has made Pakistan extremely averse to reforms. There is universal consensus that the system needs a thorough...

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Climate-proofing mandates

ALL politics is local. The nature of the local polity sets the direction of national policies. In fact, the poor quality of local governance has...

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Climate finance geopolitics

THE lines of distinction between climate finance and traditional development financing have been blurred. Concurrently, national and provincial roles...

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Climate-conflict nexus

DISASTERS triggered by climate change leave deep scars. The impact is not just about the loss of lives and damage to properties; disasters also...

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Sizing up climate negotiations

THE global climate year moves from one climate summit to the other. All 29 annual Conferences of the Parties, or COPs, have traditionally been held at...

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Changing political climate

PERHAPS the most important takeaway from the climate summit in the UAE was the engagement of young boys and girls from almost a dozen youth groups...

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Climate opportunities

SEVERAL important opportunities at COP28 have set the direction of Pakistan’s climate journey for the year ahead. Pakistan was able to seize at...

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New climate finances

THE climate summit in the UAE had a dramatic start: the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) was established, a pledge to replenish the Green Climate Fund (GCF)...

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Finding $20 billion annually

PAKISTAN is gearing up for active participation in the climate summit, scheduled to begin today in the UAE. While raising the flag for global climate...

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Implementing fiscal strategy

THE federal government has rectified what successive governments in Pakistan had overlooked for many years: announcing a National Climate Finance...

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Elusive climate justice

NO other climate issue has divided the Global South and Global North in international climate negotiations as much as the question of setting up of...

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Building absorptive capacity

PAKISTAN has been less than successful in accessing international climate finance, and even less in implementing the approved projects in a timely or...

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Accessing climate finance

THE global landscape for international climate finance has in recent years undergone a transformational change. Fundamentally, it has moved away from...

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Cost of climate inaction

THE cost of climate change for Pakistan is very high. But the cost of inaction and growing procrastination is even higher. It is often made worse by...

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Climate action leadership

HOW is Pakistan gearing up for COP28 that begins on Nov 30 in Dubai? The foremost challenge for the interim government is determining how best to...

21.09.2023 200

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The eastern rivers

CLIMATE change has made the South Asian monsoon evermore unpredictable. Heavy rains in the catchment areas of the Beas, Ravi and Sutlej rivers deep...

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