Environment
Artificial Intelligence is transforming economies, industries, and everyday life. With AI projected to add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, its promise is immense but so are the risks. Explore AI's opportunities, challenges and the public policies needed to ensure responsible and sustainable innovation.
The development of a global green transition needs batteries, electric cars, and renewable energy materials. These then depend on minerals: cobalt, lithium, nickel, manganese, graphite, and rare earth elements. The continent holds a vast reserves of these resources, however it exports as ores and imports finished products. Such a development leaves no choice but starts a debt trap.
The fight against climate change has reached the customs border. While wealthier nations accelerate their transition to green energy, they are increasingly concerned about "carbon leakage". These nations fears that carbon-intensive industries will simply move production to countries with weaker environmental regulations to avoid high domestic carbon costs.
Despite being a low emitter, Pakistan ranks 8th on the Global Climate Risk Index. Pakistan needs $348B by 2030 in climate finance, to build resilience against Himalayan glacier melt and Indus floods. The COP29 New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) must deliver grant-based, debt-free financing to stabilize this vulnerable economy and uphold global climate justice.
In our relentless pursuit of the new, the faster, and the smarter, we’ve collectively paved a digital superhighway of innovation. Yet, beneath the gleam of every new smartphone, ultra-thin laptop, and AI-powered gadget, lies a burgeoning shadow: the global e-waste dump.
The smog crisis is more than a health emergency. It is in fact a financial catastrophe. It costs the nation 7% of its total GDP roughly translating into a 'Trillion Rupee Economic Drain' annually.
As the global demand for clean energy surges, control over rare earth and critical minerals has become a new front in the U.S.-China rivalry and Africa is emerging as the decisive player. Explore how this mineral race is reshaping global economic power and resource sovereignty.
