Climate Change and Pakistan: A Policy Brief

The Current Climate Reality Climate change is not a distant threat but a present reality for Pakistan. This statement from the Pakistan Economic Survey 2025-26 is not just words—it is fact. The data shows that 2025 ranked as the country’s second warmest year in 65 years, with temperatures reaching 23.9°C and rainfall dropping 3 percent […]

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Pakistan’s Environmental Data Gap: Why Measuring Matters

Pakistan has no shortage of environmental problems. Air pollution affects major cities, water resources are under increasing pressure, ecosystems are changing, waste is accumulating, and climate-related hazards are placing growing demands on communities, agriculture and infrastructure. Yet behind many of these challenges is another problem that receives far less attention: Pakistan’s ability to collect, connect and […]

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Pakistan Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change

Environmental Adaptation in Pakistan

Environmental Adaptation in Pakistan: Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change Climate change has emerged as one of the most pressing global challenges of the 21st century, affecting ecosystems, economies, and societies worldwide. Although its impacts are global, they are distributed unevenly, disproportionately affecting developing countries with limited adaptive capacity. Pakistan exemplifies this disparity. […]

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Water Pollution Causing Antibiotic Resistance in Pakistan

Pakistan’s rivers carry more than just water. Along with sewage and industrial waste, they now carry medicine residues and plastic debris. This mix is quietly helping the dangerous bacteria grow stronger and harder to treat. Antibiotic resistance is usually discussed as a hospital issue. In reality, it is also an environmental issue. In Pakistan, polluted […]

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What To Do About Floods and GLOFs in Pakistan

Heavy rainfall leading to floods as well as Cloudbursts and GLOFs, have killed around a 1000 and injured around 965 people, have damaged infrastructure and livestock in various parts of Pakistan including Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. Rapidly intensifying weather events like cloudbursts, floods, and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs) […]

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Lack of Climate Change Research in Pakistan – Need and Importance

Introduction: Climate Change Research and Pakistan Although Pakistan emits less than 1 percent of the global emissions of green house gases but has suffered immensely due to climate change. Even future projections tell us of increasingly dire consequences for Pakistan. It is not fair that Pakistan has to bear the brunt of climate change and […]

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Climate Change Causing Rice Crop Yield Reduction In Pakistan

crop yield is declining due to climate change

INTRODUCTION Climate change is wrecking havoc everywhere around the world. Pakistan is among the top affected countries by climate change. Pakistan is an agrarian country where the developing economy is based on the agriculture sector. Climate change is adversely impacting agriculture production in Pakistan. Check out: The Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Pakistan […]

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Weather Impacts Number of COVID-19 Cases In Pakistan – Research

increasing temperature has resulted in rising COVID-19 cases in Pakistan

INTRODUCTION The start of the pandemic COVID-19 created panic all around the world. Due to imposed lockdown, people blindly bought essential food items and other necessary things that resulted in increased demand for commodities. Everyone was unaware of the future situation because the number of COVID-19 cases was rising at great speed. The number of […]

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Eating Fish From Chenab River Pakistan Can Be Deadly For You

trace metals are found in Chenab River

INTRODUCTION People that live nearby the water body usually depend on fish species for livelihood and food sources. But nowadays, urban and fertilizers runoff, industrial effluents, etc are being discharged into water bodies. These activities are polluting the water, degrading drinking water quality as well as causing problems for species inhabiting the freshwater body. WHAT […]

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