Climate & Environment

An earthquake measured at 5.9 by Pakistan's Meteorological Department struck 48 kilometres northwest of Khuzdar, Balochistan, on Saturday morning, sending residents into the streets. No deaths, injuries or property damage have been reported.

BBP Climate Desk · October 17, 2026 · 3 min

The Indus River System Authority's Advisory Committee has approved an overall 22 percent water shortage for Punjab and Sindh for the Rabi season running October 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027, after combined reservoir storage closed September at 9.343 million acre feet, well below last year's 13.214 MAF.

BBP Climate Desk · October 13, 2026 · 3 min

Sindh's irrigation minister told a visiting World Bank delegation on October 8 that the province wants $350 million for a new Flood Resilience Project, four years after 2022's floods displaced 14.6 million people and cost the province an estimated $9.1 billion.

BBP Climate Desk · October 9, 2026 · 4 min

Punjab's disaster management authority warned of record-breaking rainfall through October 7 as a Mediterranean-fed western disturbance, an Arabian Sea low and a Bay of Bengal depression converge, prompting a Ravi River flood alert and a dam discharge increase to 37,000 cusecs.

BBP Climate Desk · October 7, 2026 · 3 min

At the UN General Assembly's Second Committee, Pakistan's deputy envoy pushed for a credible path to $300 billion a year in climate finance, tripled adaptation funding, and debt-system reform to address a $4 trillion annual SDG financing gap.

BBP Climate Desk · October 7, 2026 · 4 min

A new Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service report, published September 30, ranks Lahore among cities with 'extremely poor' ozone levels, as heatwaves and emissions pushed a third of the world's population into the same category this year.

BBP Climate Desk · September 30, 2026 · 3 min

Pakistan's NDC 3.0 commits to cutting emissions up to 50 percent by 2035, a target the World Bank prices at $565.7 billion. Reporting this week found the country has drawn under half a billion dollars from the main global climate funds combined.

BBP Climate Desk · September 28, 2026 · 4 min

Combined storage at Tarbela and Mangla has fallen below 9.5 million acre feet ahead of the Rabi season that starts October 1 — the lowest carryover in five years, with IRSA bracing provinces for a shortage of around 25 percent as wheat sowing begins.

BBP Climate Desk · September 28, 2026 · 4 min

Heavy rain across Islamabad, Rawalpindi and parts of Punjab and KP on September 28 shut schools, tripped power feeders and pushed Rawalpindi's civic agencies onto a full rain-emergency footing, with Nullah Lai monitored through the day.

BBP Climate Desk · September 28, 2026 · 3 min