Browsing Tag environment
NA committee for depts’ coop to meet water, environment MDGs
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 5:19 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Availability of adequate funds and increased investment is critical for achieving all Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Pakistan before 2015 deadline. A high-level meeting of the National Assembly’s special committee on MDGs pressed on need for promotion of watershed management, rainwater harvesting, building up more water reservoirs to meet more...
Protecting global environment!
By Technology Times at September 18, 2012 | 4:36 pm | 0 Comment
THOUGH ENVIRONMENTALISTS have rung alarm bells regarding the ever increasing negative impacts of climate change not only on the Earth but also on patterns of human life and equally on agriculture and the Pakistani government’s claimed initiatives for the protection of environment, the progress in this regard still seems a distant dream. According to statistics, Pakistan more...
Tetra Pak acknowledges media role on food, environment
By Technology Times at August 24, 2012 | 5:41 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Tetra Pak, the world’s leading food processing and packaging solutions company, has recently held a ceremony to celebrate winners of the “Tetra Pak Media Awards”. The awards aim to appreciate and encourage the media’s role in promoting environment and food safety related issues in Pakistan, said an official of the company while talking to more...
Facebook more environment lover and nature friendly than other social network companies
By Technology Times at August 8, 2012 | 1:46 pm | 0 Comment
Carbon foot print is hot terminology use nowadays; its mean total amount of greenhouse gas produces by a person, company, event, product or organization. Carbon foot print can be measured by undertaking a GHG emissions assessment. Once the size of a carbon footprint is known, a strategy can be devised to reduce it, e.g. by technological developments, better process and more...
Environment unfriendly plastic use
By Technology Times at July 17, 2012 | 5:17 am | 0 Comment
MAN-MADE PLASTIC has been a boon in many ways and has countless uses, but it is also an environmental time-bomb waiting to explode. These plastics do not decompose easily and, hence, lead to countless health and environmental hazards when disposed of carelessly. Burning of plastic bags and items leads to the creation of noxious fumes, such as carbon monoxide. The more...
Environment unfriendly plastic use
By Technology Times at July 10, 2012 | 12:01 am | 0 Comment
MAN-MADE PLASTIC has been a boon in many ways and has countless uses, but it is also an environmental time-bomb waiting to explode. These plastics do not decompose easily and, hence, lead to countless health and environmental hazards when disposed of carelessly. Burning of plastic bags and items leads to the creation of noxious fumes, such as carbon monoxide. The more...
Wind turbines can save environment
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 9:48 pm | 0 Comment
If wind plants of 1,500MW are installed, they can produce 3,942 GWH of electricity in a year which is 11.88 per cent of total generation on oil. Each unit produce on oil costs around Rs 22. If we consider Rs 5 per unit as operating and maintenance cost of wind power plant, still Rs 17 can be saved on each unit A SURVEY was carried out by the National Renewable Energy more...
World ‘seriousness’ on environment change!
By Technology Times at July 2, 2012 | 9:32 pm | 0 Comment
THE RECENTLY held representative conference of world leaders at Rio was aimed to reiterate the commitment of the Earth Summit 1992 towards protection of Earth as well as biodiversity in the world, however, the gathering turned out to be a cause for major disappointment mainly due to the lukewarm attitude of many heads of governments and states. Though climate change has more...
Young children urged to care for environment
By Technology Times at June 7, 2012 | 7:20 pm | 0 Comment
Sana Jamal Islamabad—Federal Minister for Climate Change called on young people to play an active part in the preservation of the environment and encouraged them to plant at least one tree. “Our standards of living can be made better only by keeping the environment clean and green”, said Minister Rana M. Farooq Saeed Khan who was addressing at an event to mark more...
Lotte Pak joins WWF to project environment issue
By Technology Times at May 22, 2012 | 11:54 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT KHI: Lotte Pakistan PTA Ltd. has joined hands with WWF Pakistan to spread greater environmental awareness among the young students and provide them an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of key environmental issues the region is facing at the moment. As a sole sponsor of WWF-Pakistan’s Eco Internship Programme 2012, Lotte PPTA will be more...
Environment: Concern over lack of legislation
By Technology Times at April 14, 2012 | 2:08 pm | 0 Comment
Speaking at a ceremony entitled `South Asia conference on environmental justice`, CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry expressed his concern over the lack of legislation regarding environmental protection in Pakistan. The indiscriminate disposal of untreated wastes, water logging and salinity, ineffective sewer outlets, emissions of greenhouse gases and chronic noise exposure are some more...
Pak climate policy approved focusing on environment
By Technology Times at April 9, 2012 | 11:58 am | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: The government has finally approved the much-awaited National Climate Change Policy mainly focusing on importing natural gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) over import of oil from foreign countries. The draft of policy reveals that the government would take measures to ensure reduction in usage of petroleum products that more...
Environment in the light of Holy Quran
By Technology Times at March 17, 2012 | 12:15 pm | 0 Comment
[caption id="attachment_13857" align="alignright" width="99" caption="Anusha Sherazi"][/caption] ISLAM IS a religion of peace, harmony and liberalism and does not promote any kind of violence or turmoil. Environment is an essential and integral part of a human world. Allah Almighty created man in harmony with His creations of plants, animals, soil, water, fire and air. more...
Pakistan, India need to address environment issues
By Technology Times at February 25, 2012 | 2:38 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Participants of the Pakistan-India Track-II Dialogue on (Climate) Change for Peace have stressed that India and Pakistan need to work together to address common challenges posed by climate change in order to achieve food and energy security, sustainable livelihoods, conservation of biodiversity, enhanced water use efficiency, promotion of low carbon more...
Row over environment cell control persists
By Technology Times at February 6, 2012 | 1:16 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: A cold war has been going on among government departments over the control of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) cell for the last four months. The devolved Ministry of Environment became the National Designated Authority (NDA) of the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change after it established the cell and placed it under Enercon back more...
Environment degradation costing Pakistan $1 billion a day
By Technology Times at January 28, 2012 | 2:09 pm | 0 Comment
STAFF REPORT IBD: Pakistan is losing cumulatively $1 billion per day due to the environmental degradation while the successive governments have never given serious attention to the issue. This was the crux of the seminar on "Strategic Environmental Assessment - in the context of Framework for Economic Growth - Taking the bull by the horns" organised by the Planning more...
