Pakistan

CK Solar Korea has reached an agreement to build a 300-MW solar park in Pakistan’s Balochistan province for a cost of around USD 900 million, according to a Pakistani official.
Another flood in Pakistan
February 01, 2013
Data presented at a seminar on climate change in Pakistan highlighted trends where this South Asian country, which stretches from high, snow-capped mountains to a deltaic coast, could be in for a sharp rise in average temperatures and extremely erratic weather. The seminar, held at the end of December, analyzed data in a new report produced by top non-government organizations, LEAD-Pakistan and the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan, with funding from the European Union.
Pakistan's first wind farm
Pakistan has inaugurated its first wind farm. The 50-MW project by Fauji Fertilizer Company (FCC) is the first of 3.2-GW of wind farms planned around the country.
The Pakistani province of Punjab has signed German engineering firm AEG to deliver up to 400-MW of solar power by 2014.
Pakistan Environment Protection Agency’s high-tech air monitoring system has been closed due to shortage of funds.
South Korea’s CX Sola is planning to build a 300-MW solar generation plant in Pakistan, according to the government.
Pakistan’s new national sustainable development strategy (NSDS) boasts a “green action agenda” and proposes to set up a knowledge management system that is based on science, technology and innovation, according to a report from website SciDev.
Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission gets some spit and polish
June 11, 2012
Pakistan's 44 per cent hike in outlay for atomic energy in its 2012–2013 budget contrasts with a massive drop in funds for crop research and overshadows a much smaller hike in overall allocation for science.    Despite drawing international attention in the past two years to its increased vulnerability to climate change, Pakistan allocated a meager 135 million Pakistani rupees (USD 1.43 million) to its newly formed climate change ministry – a fraction of the USD416 million given to the atomic energy sector in the budget presented on 1 June.
Wind map of Pakistan
June 01, 2012
Hong Kong-listed United Energy Group Ltd plans to invest USD3 billion to develop wind power in Pakistan and is in talks to buy turbines from Chinese suppliers, according to Reuters. The company, which had previously focused solely on oil and gas in China, says the money will be used to fund construction a 500-MW wind farm for which it has already obtained approval from the Pakistani government. News of such a large foreign investment in Pakistan’s nascent wind sector has no doubt been officially well received but will do little to quell popular discontent in the county over its on-going electricity supply crisis.
Maplecroft 2012 water threat index map
May 15, 2012
The viability of water supplies throughout key regions of China, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the US are under threat from unsustainable domestic, agricultural and industrial demands, according to a new study that maps water use down to 10km² worldwide.  The growth economies of China and India, and the world’s largest economy USA are identified by risk analysis company Maplecroft, in its newly released Water Stress Index, as having vast geographical regions and sector areas where unsustainable water use is outstripping supply.