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Rina Saeed Khan
Rina Saeed Khan is a Lahore based freelance journalist by profession, with an MSc in Environment and Development from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. She began her career in journalism in 1992 when she joined The Friday Times, Pakistan’s first independent English weekly newspaper. She served as Features Editor until 1998 and still contributes features on environment and development issues. From 1998 onwards she began working as a consultant in communications with the United Nations Development Programme in Pakistan and WWF-Pakistan, writing reports and scripts for documentaries. Rina is currently writing a weekly column on the environment called ‘Earthly Matters’ for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest circulation English-language national daily.
Posts by Rina Saeed Khan
Farewell to Yvo de Boer
No commentsIn his farewell speech the UN’s outgoing climate chief, Yvo de Boer, told his audience: “To use World Cup imagery: we got a yellow card in Copenhagen and the referee’s hand will edge towards the red one if we fail to deliver in Cancun and beyond”.
»Adaptation Fund to directly finance developing countries
No commentsFor the first time, developing countries will be able to obtain money from the UN’s climate convention to help them to adapt to climate change directly and without having to go through multi-lateral bodies.
»The glacier that buried a village
No commentsScientists fear mountain glaciers are melting faster than ever as a result of rising temperatures, leading to fears that glacial lakes are becoming dangerously unstable. For Chitral village in Pakistan’s Hindu Kush mountain range this has already spelled disaster.
»Which path will we choose?
No commentsThe Copenhagen climate summit in December 2009 offered two choices: resolute action together to try to slow the increase in global temperatures, or continuing prevarication over who should act first. The path chosen was perhaps predictably depressing.
»Tipping point in Copenhagen?
No commentsThe candlelit climax to the huge climate demonstration in Copenhagen left participants overwhelmed, and prompted one veteran activist to say the world had reached a tipping point.
»Wary neighbours unite over climate change
No commentsRiven by disagreement on many issues, Pakistan and India are making common cause in the quest for a fair and effective global climate agreement.
»Outrage over Danish climate proposal
No commentsDeveloping countries have reacted furiously to a Danish proposal apparently intended to speed up the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen.
»Energy? The answer is blowing in the wind
No commentsCan the solution to climate change really lie in the hands of technology? We decided to find out during a boat ride to visit the massive wind turbines set up off the coast of Copenhagen.
»Climate of no trust
No commentsThe recent UN climate talks in Bangkok were bedevilled by a lack of trust between rich and poor – a wide gap that needs bridging if the December climate summit in Copenhagen is to produce real agreement.
»Ready for REDD
No commentsREDD proposes that forests are more valuable standing than cut down. They serve as water catchments, as homes for biodiversity and indigenous peoples and as carbon storage. It would make sense for the world to start paying for these free, living services rather than clearing the forests for logging and turning them into plantations or ranches.
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