Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Pakistan
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330 MW Kishen Ganga project may miss 2nd deadline
Some Works Still Pending In Powerhouse, Tunnel: NHPC Sources The commissioning of 330 MW Kishen Ganga Hydro Electric Power Project (KGHEP) under construction at Gurez and Bandipora is likely to breach
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Integrated context analysis (ICA): On vulnerability to food insecurity and natural hazards- Pakistan, 2017
This report presents an Integrated Context Analysis (ICA) of vulnerability to food insecurity and natural hazards in Pakistan, based on existing datasets to identify and rank districts by the level of
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Working across scales: Learning from seven years of climate compatible development in Asia
The adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change Agreement, all in 2015, highlights
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Listen to the River: Lessons from a global review of environmental flow success stories
With nearly half the world’s population affected by water scarcity and demand for freshwater continuing to soar, a WWF report released at the 20th International Riversymposium in Brisbane shows how governments
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Improving lives of rural communities through developing small hybrid renewable energy systems
Despite significant economic growth in Asia in recent decades, millions of people in rural Asia still lack access to electricity. A project has been implemented to develop small hybrid renewable energy
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Fear and sweating in Pakistan's hottest cities
In the desert community of Sibi in southwest Balochistan province, where the mercury hit 52.4 degrees Celsius (126 Fahrenheit) this summer, people crowd into any available shade or mud-soaked stream to
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Hard hit
WITH the giant Himalayas caging its towering clouds, the great basin where the Brahmaputra merges with the Ganges and Meghna rivers is prone not only to heavy rainfall but also to sudden deluges. Bits
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Climate change profile of Pakistan
This country profile provides a comprehensive overview of climate change science and policy in Pakistan, drawing insights from national and international literature. Catastrophic floods, droughts, and
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One Billion Trees Planted in Pakistan's NW Province
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's northwestern province, Khyber Pakhtunkhaw (KPK), has planted an unprecedented 1 billion trees in just more than two years and surpassed an international commitment of restoring 350,000
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Heat waves may hit North India most by 2100: Study
Temperatures in the Indo-Gangetic Plains would exceed the upper limit of what normally people can tolerate North India, along with parts of Pakistan and Bangladesh, would be among the regions hardest