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Ali Tauqeer SheikhDawn |
A complex agenda awaits Pakistan’s delegation at the upcoming climate summit.
The announcement of the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) at the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt was a significant diplomatic victory for...
A RECENT article by Nathan Porter, IMF’s Pakistan mission chief, on ‘Revitalising Pakistan’s economy’ in Dawn provided a comprehensive...
PAKISTAN’S climate finance ecosystem is informal and unfolding. It has not been fully operationalised or coordinated, let alone synchronised with...
PAKISTAN’S battle against climate change cannot be fought without support from the private sector. The private sector and the government in Pakistan...
PAKISTAN’S pursuit of climate resilience and low-carbon development is inextricably linked to its macroeconomic stability. The country needs to...
CLIMATE change does not need passports as it does not respect borders. Pakistan’s climate risks are rooted in shared ecosystems with its neighbours....
WHY do governments fail to do what they say they want to do? Any student of public policy will testify that policy is not what they say they will do...
IF the merciless monsoon rains and floods in India are any indicator, Pakistan can anticipate heavy rains and flooding in several parts of the...
CLIMATE change has begun to infringe on the freedom of believers to perform Haj freely and fearlessly. The world was shocked to learn that almost...
THE finance bill or proposed budget for the next fiscal year has refused to commit any resources or even set the national direction for climate...
ENERGY has become a critical national security issue for Pakistan. The present policy prescriptions have brought us to a dead-end street. It has not...
HOW can Pakistan overcome the credibility gap and attract international climate finance? Our economic managers failed to provide safe, profitable, and...
THE federal government has just initiated an important but overly cautious process of streamlining its institutional landscape dealing with climate...
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...
CLIMATE governance in Pakistan is flawed. It is ineffective and unresponsive to climate threats. Its ability to deliver climate actions to communities...
THE Indus River System Authority is under siege. Irsa is the only federal institution in the country charged with regulating, monitoring, and...
THE newly elected government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has a rare window of opportunity to exercise leadership by aligning national climate...
THE fragility of the political system has made Pakistan extremely averse to reforms. There is universal consensus that the system needs a thorough...
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...
THE lines of distinction between climate finance and traditional development financing have been blurred. Concurrently, national and provincial roles...
DISASTERS triggered by climate change leave deep scars. The impact is not just about the loss of lives and damage to properties; disasters also...
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...
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...
SEVERAL important opportunities at COP28 have set the direction of Pakistan’s climate journey for the year ahead. Pakistan was able to seize at...
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)...