THE government’s plan to present a climate-focused budget for the next fiscal year is a paradigm shift in national economic planning. And a welcome one as it is about time that Pakistan’s enormous climate-related challenges were incorporated in its economic strategy, even though cynics argue that the policy shift is driven by liquidity compulsions to secure climate funds from the IMF. According to the minister of state for climate change, nearly 30pc of all public development projects for the next year will undergo a Climate Public Investment Management Assessment. This announcement came at a conference where experts highlighted........

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