Pakistan

Region: Pakistan

Pakistan:

Projects
13
Resources
13
Stories
63
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Project : Scoping a combined programme on climate compatible development for Pakistan

The focus of this 6 months project is to support the Government of Pakistan in developing and scoping a nationally appropriate programme of work on climate compatible development which will build on work done on climate change in Pakistan and connect the government’s newly approved National Climate Change Policy to action on the ground.

Feature
9th March 2012
Preparing for disasters to come In this blog, Zafar Iqbal Qadir, Chairman of the Government of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority describes the national, regional and local measure being put in place to mitigate against future disaster risks.
Feature
3rd February 2012
Climate resilient model villages Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of the Punjab, Pakistan, tells us how his province is 'building back better' after the 2010 floods, to help communities prepare for disasters and adapt to climate change.
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Project : Improving journalists’ capacity to cover climate change: the Climate Change Media Partnership

Over two years, CDKN supported the Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) to improve the quality and quantity of climate change coverage in the developing country media, enhance the capacity of journalists to cover the issues and ensure developing country voices are heard in global debates.

Feature
6th July 2011
Harnessing media potential in the fight against climate change CDKN's Fayyaz Ahmad Khan reviews the recent Climate Change Media Partnership report on why the media should matter more to policy-makers tackling climate change in the developing world.
Feature
6th July 2011
Explosion of solar power in Bangladesh Guest CDKN blogger, journalist Abu Rushd Md. Ruhul Amin, reports from Bangladesh on the extraordinary rise in solar power generation in the country, and the policy frameworks that have aided its growth.
Feature
7th June 2011
SRREN recommendations - challenges for Asian countries The IPCC's Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) resonates with the aspirations of many developing countries in Asia. But one thing's for certain: every Asian country will have its own distinct approach to taking up the recommendations.
Feature
6th June 2011
Deadlock likely at Bonn climate talks With the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and China) and the G8 lining up on opposite sides of the fence, the prospects aren't good for progress on United Nations climate talks, when nations meet in Bonn this week.
Feature
26th May 2011
Climate change - working together for Durban In an exclusive report for CDKN, lead climate negotiator for Pakistan Farrukh Iqbal Khan gives us an inside look at the Green Climate Fund, and considers what the year has in store for the UNFCCC process.
Feature
24th May 2011
Renewable energy to save planet Earth? Syed Ayub Qutab, Executive Director of the Pakistan Institute for Environment & Development Action Research (PIEDAR), gives CDKN an analysis of the recent UNFCCC report on renewable energy. Find out what he has to say about the consequences of a large-scale shift to renewables.
Feature
24th December 2010
Postcard from Cancun - an Asian view Pakistan's delegation proposed an alternative definition of climate vulnerability at CoP16 in Cancun, supported by CDKN's Asia team.
Resource
8th December 2010
In conversation... with Shafqat Kakakhel, Pakistan Climate Negotiator Mairi Dupar of CDKN interviews Shafqat Kakakhel, Ex-Assistant Secretary General of the UN and member of the Pakistan delegation at COP 16, about the effects of climate change in Pakistan and implications for future climate change financing.