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What does the Paris Agreement mean for Pakistan?
Posted by Dawn: Rina Saeed Khan on December 18th, 2015
Dawn: Twenty-three years after the Earth Summit of 1992, it took just a few minutes for the Paris climate agreement to be adopted on December 12th at COP21. I watched it happen live on a video screen put up in the hallways of the Le Bourget conference center, as with my media badge, I could not get into the plenary that final day.
Ministers hugged each other and there were plenty of wide smiles and applause. The media stationed outside the plenary went into a frenzy, with bleary-eyed TV journalists...
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Cancun and Pakistan
Posted by Dawn: Rina Saeed Khan on December 22nd, 2010
Dawn: THE Cancun agreements “mark a new era in international cooperation on climate change”, concluded Mexico`s Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa, who presided over the two-week UN Climate Change Conference recently held in Mexico.
A series of agreements on finance, technology, adaptation and forest protection have emerged in Cancun. These can create the basis of a future global treaty on climate change.
The 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties signatory to the UN`s Framework Convention on...