Durham grad and commonwealth scholar. Environmentalist. Aspiring academic moonlighting as a writer. Reluctant supermom who was happy being just a nerd 🤓
LIVE: Pakistan implemented the first #climatechange case, of a farmer who took the government to court for failing to ensure water security in a changing climate, which is now being used as reference globally to deal with climate issues. #JusticeForAll
In case you missed it, see how the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in partnership with @UNDP_Pakistan, took forward the country’s first provincial strategy to set a roadmap for financing #climateaction. https://t.co/p1oCnIZTKC
Even without the support of all national governments, the emissions reduction pledges of private sector, civil society, city, and regional actors could deliver significant carbon mitigation on a global scale, write @ecoangelhsu and @AmyWeinfurter.
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Continuing shifts in climate around the world are driving up the costs associated with extreme weather events, putting new strains on both short-term emergency response and long-term investments and economic growth.
https://t.co/OmVdizYu0z
'Only 955 out of total 1,461 schools in five talukas of Thatta district are functional, says official report' 522 schools are non functional in just one district of Sindh https://t.co/PdoiYHi8mB
Climate change is the defining issue of our time – and we are at a defining moment. If we do not change course by 2020, we could miss our chance to avoid the disastrous consequences of runaway climate change. The time for ambitious #ClimateAction is now. https://t.co/Ad19hj3zsD
On Monday in New York, I will sound the alarm on the global emergency that is climate change, and outline how we can win the race for our future. Watch live: https://t.co/iMzE2WxSNy #ClimateAction
Remember this: Pakistan can never go anywhere good if its state, governments and polity continue to surrender to bigotry. It can only go in circles, until the circle becomes so narrow that all three begin to tear each other apart.
At least 87 elephant corpses were counted during aerial surveys. Their tusks were all hacked off, in a massacre said to be one of the worst recorded in Africa. https://t.co/8x3nnXFj8V
Great reporting by @bradplumer and @nytclimate on the carbon loophole & what we have to do to close it. It's time for countries and companies everywhere to #BuyClean: https://t.co/EWokbr4tyY
And this can only be done by effective watershed management!! Dams can take years to build but efforts to conserve water through manipulation of natural topography costs practically nothing @aminattock
Pakistan’s flood waters are an ecological resource and need to be stored and utilized instead of being wasted every year.
~Advisor to PM on climate change Malik Amin Aslam
Happy to know that things are being streamlined and taking final shapes under the leadership of @aminattock @MoCCPak. #wildlifepolicy https://t.co/Bw1vnFZJIk
There is something fundamentally wrong when thousands of Amazon workers are on food stamps while their boss, Jeff Bezos, is the richest man in the world.
May this Eid ul Zuha bring peace, harmony, understanding, togetherness and love.
May those who spread hatred and sow the seeds of strife and destruction, be struck down.
May Love conquer the earth...and hatred be buried forever.
Eid Mubarak, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh!♥️