23 July 2023 No Further Taxation on Real Estate Before the National Assembly this week, Finance Minister Ishaq Dar while giving policy statement said the government neither has imposed new taxes on construction & real estate sectors and nor would do so in future as well in the wake of a $3 billion loan deal …
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The new United States (US) government with Joe Biden at helm, the US reshaped its global Climate Change Policy. In his his first presidential acts, the new President rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement on January 20th. 2021. And, at the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22& 23, 2022, he vowed the US would double …
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The 27th edition of the Conference of the Parties (COP 27) to the UNFCCC kicks off in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. A number of world leaders and scientists will spend two weeks debating how to arrest planet earth’ global warming, carbon reduction and protect humanity from the perils of climate change. This year the main objective …
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The pace of climate crisis, environment deterioration and diminishing natural resources around the planet earth is much faster than predicted. The vagaries of climate change hasn’t been arrested during the last two decades despite spending billions of dollars on environment conferences and policies. Experts therefore, demand urgent measures by federal and provincial governments to build …
The COP26 ends this week where participating nations have agreed a deal on the climate crisis and adopt The “Glasgow climate pact”. They agreed to keep the goal of limiting global heating within reach to 1.5C but clearly fell well short in actions, required to limit temperatures to 1.5C. Poor countries were left frustrated at …
The annual UN Climate Change Conference (COP) is a regular feature since 1995. The two-week summit is an important event for stakeholders to discuss the climate crisis on a global level, in line to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For this year summit – named the COP26 –, the World Health …
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