Ecoholic: Call for entries for Pakistan Environmental Reporting Award

Ecoholic: WWF and ACCA Pakistan call for entries for Pakistan Environmental Reporting Award

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pakistan and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, Pakistan (ACCA) have invited organizations to submit their reports for Pakistan Environmental Reporting Award.

The reports may include annual, social, and environmental or sustainability reports— reports disclosing information that depicts the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of organizations.

The deadline for the submission of entries is February 1, 2013 and the awards will be given away in June 2013. Read more about Ecoholic: Call for entries for Pakistan Environmental Reporting Award

Climate change is taking place before our eyes: UN Report

Climate Change UN Report

28 November 2012 – Temperatures this year are the ninth highest on record since 1850 despite the effect of La Niña, a meteorological phenomenon which is supposed to have a cooling influence on the Earth’s atmosphere, says a new United Nations report released today.

High temperatures were accompanied by unprecedented melting of the Arctic sea ice and multiple weather and climate extremes which affected many parts of the world.
The findings are among the highlights of the provisional UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) statement on the state of the global climate, which provides an annual snapshot of weather and climate events around the world. Read more about Climate change is taking place before our eyes: UN Report

New Research Shows Increase in Karakoram Glaciers

Call it a ‘climate change mystery’ but scientists have found the Glaciers of Karakorum gaining ice over the last decade. According to a research at the University of France, scientists have disclosed that the Karakoram glaciers— in contrast to worldwide decline in mountain glaciers— have increased around 0.11m to 0.22m per year between 1999 and 2008.

"Our conclusion that Karakoram glaciers had a small mass gain at the beginning of the 21st century indicates that those central/eastern glaciers are not representative of the whole (Himalayas)," researchers said in the report published in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience journal. Read more about New Research Shows Increase in Karakoram Glaciers

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Musharraf files Papers for NA-32 in Chitral

Chitral— former President General retired, Pervez Musharaf’s election Nomination Papers have been filed in Chitral. Former Tehsil Nazim, Shahzada Sikandarul Mulk submitted the papers on behalf of the APML’s leader. Read in News section

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