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Pakistan to be represented by officials at World Bank-IMF spring meetings
World Bank urges investment in climate resilience to reduce poverty in Pakistan The World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund…
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Climate Change
Wishing away water woes
Climate change is South Asia’s foremost development challenge — and a rapidly emerging non-traditional regional security threat. India’s 90-day notice…
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Climate Change
Climate finance system reset required to tackle 21st Century Climate Change crisis: Sherry
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday said that climate change was rapidly changing it’s scale…
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Climate Change
Pakistan needs $348bn to respond to climate adaptation: Sherry Rehman
Federal Minister for Climate Change, Senator Sherry Rehman has urged the World Bank to play its role in climate change…
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Climate Change
Approach to #WaterStorage must change
Risks to water security are the greatest threat to attaining global sustainability goals. It is hard to look out the…
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Climate Change
Rs 68 Billion PRIAT Offers Climate Smart Water-use Technologies To Farmers At Subsidized Cost
Punjab government has asked farmers to avail a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of upgrading their water systems, resilient to extreme weather events,…
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World Bank adaptation funds slept through Pakistan’s record flooding
A $100 million project was meant to protect Karachi slumdwellers from flooding, but instead made many homeless before work stalled…
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Drinking water sources in flood-hit areas of Sindh, Balochistan found highly contaminated: Expert
KARACHI: The post-flood situation in both Sindh and Balochistan is worrisome, requiring immediate government intervention. Water is still standing in…
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WB okays $1.7bn for flood-hit Sindh
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $1.692 billion in financing to Pakistan for five projects to…
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Pakistan Expects about $13 billion from Partners to Finance Post-Flood Reconstruction
ISLAMABAD: As the cost of the flood protection plan goes up by almost 51 per cent even without its launch,…
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