ViewsWeek Views from around the world
A new report from Greenpeace and Harvard says Chinese-financed coal projects in Asia could lead to 70,000 premature deaths a year.
January, 2017
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17 January
Pakistan’s Coal Energy: At What Cost?
The thoughtless rush for coal-fired energy by a politically motivated Pakistani ruling elite is both alarming and questionable.
November, 2016
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18 November
Farmers Start Adapting to Climate-related Risks in South Asia
Attempts to tackle the declining production of saffron, the iconic spice of Kashmir, is symptomatic of the various agricultural adaptations that are required across south Asia to adjust to climate change.
October, 2016
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26 October
India-Pakistan Tensions Hit Climate Finance
After objections by the Indian representative, the Green Climate Fund has kept on hold a project to reduce the risk of glacial lake outburst floods in northern Pakistan.
September, 2016
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10 September
Melting Glaciers May Impact Hydropower Plans
The World Water Week has put the focus back into shrinking glaciers but the jury is still out on the impacts they will have on the flow in snow-fed rivers and hydropower generation.
July, 2016
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19 July
The Little-Known Fund at the Heart of the Paris Climate Agreement
The Green Climate Fund is supposed to finance the world's shift away from fossil fuels. But fossil fuel-funding banks are eager to get on board.
May, 2016
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16 May
Coastal Flooding Threatens Cities Across World
According to projections for the year 2070, India’s Kolkata and Mumbai top the list of cities whose populations are most exposed to coastal flooding, with 14 million and 11.4 million respectively. The first seven cities on the list are from Asia, followed by Miami at number eight.
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14 May
Indian Air Pollution A ‘National Crisis’
India dominates list of world’s top polluted cities, new data from the WHO reveals, with cities in Pakistan and Bangladesh catching up fast.
April, 2016
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20 April
Resilient Midwestern Cities Improving Equity in a Changing Climate
Faced with growing risks of flooding, heat-related deaths, and poor air and water quality; skyrocketing energy bills; and costly damage to homes and infrastructure, some Midwestern city officials and community advocates are taking steps to improve their cities’ resilience to the effects of climate change.
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1 April
Pakistani Farmers Wait for Information on Groundwater Mapping
As water from tube-wells goes from sweet to salty, information on depth and quality of groundwater from an ambitious exercise to map the Upper Indus basin is yet to reach farmers in Pakistan.
