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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
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.
»The survival number
No commentsRecent climate change rallies and events have centred on the number 350, to draw attention to 350 parts per million (ppm), which many scientists now say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) in the atmosphere.
»The great glacier debate
No commentsAre glaciers in the Karakoram mountains surging or receding? Scientists say there is evidence the high-altitude glaciers are growing while the low-altitude ones are retreating — so what impact will that have on water flows in the Indus River, Pakistan’s lifeline?
»Adaptation in the Third Pole
No commentsThe International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is helping villagers in the Himalayas adapt to climate change with a number of ingenious techniques.
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