ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has called for rapid, grant-based, and predictable financing for climate-vulnerable developing countries, warning that recurring climate disasters are exacerbating debt distress and undermining development gains in nations that have contributed the least to global emissions. The appeal was made at a high-level side event titled “Operationalising Loss and Damage: Financing Resilience and Recovery in Vulnerable Countries”, organised jointly …

BY GLOBAL TIMES In Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, north China’s Tianjin municipality, the first 20 smart recycling stations built by a subsidiary of China Resources Recycling Group Co., Ltd., have recently entered operation. These multifunctional “smart cabins” combine resource recovery, community services, and emergency power supply, improving front-end urban waste collection and supporting the development of zero-waste cities. Across …

LAHORE: Lahore and Karachi were among the top five most polluted cities in terms of air quality on Tuesday, according to monitoring platform IQAir. In past few years, air pollution has become one of the most pressing public health and environmental crises facing Pakistan. Various cities of the country, most notably Lahore, deal with smog especially in the winter months. …

BY GLOBAL TIMES Shanghai continues to make steady strides in building a more open, convenient, and supportive environment for international professionals, ensuring that individuals from around the world can work, live, and pursue opportunities in the city with ease. In September 2025, Anna, a 29-year-old Russian national working at a catering enterprise on the Bund, visited the Bund Service Center …

When I was 10, my parents began teaching me how to grow tulips. From that moment, I dreamed of seeing tulips bloom all over the world. As I grew older, I traveled extensively, searching for an ideal place to make my dream a reality. In 2013, I received an exciting offer from Holland Flower Park in Dafeng district of Yancheng, …

More than 70 percent of China’s fishing lines and nearly 55 percent of the world’s supply come from Geshan, a small town in Dongyang city, east China’s Zhejiang Province. In the town, buildings with “fishing gear” signs can be seen everywhere, and the atmosphere around the fishing gear industry is quite strong. The local slogan is, “Wherever there is a …

As the world’s largest ice-and-snow theme park, the ongoing 26th edition of the Harbin Ice-Snow World in Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, is a romantic fairy-tale world full of ice and snow sculptures. On Dec. 31, 2024, the operating hours of the park were extended until 00:30 a.m. the next day, attracting a large number of visitors …

In the town of Postmasburg in Northern Cape Province of South Africa, where there are abundant sunshine and vast land, the Chinese-built 100-megawatt (MW) Redstone Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) Project resembles a giant sunflower, harnessing the sun’s light and heat. The project, known as South Africa’s largest renewable energy project, was successfully connected to the country’s power grid in …

By focusing on key desert fringe areas and taking innovative, scientific and comprehensive measures for wind prevention, sand and desertification control, as well as dust suppression, China has made a promising start to its campaign to tame desert areas and created a model of sand control and desertification prevention and control. Last year, China initiated a battle against sand in …

Flocks of terns recently gathered at an embankment along the Island Ring East Road in Siming district, Xiamen city, southeast China’s Fujian Province, creating a beautiful sight against the backdrop of the blue sea and sky. According to a staff member from the city’s natural resources and planning bureau, the flocks consist of six species of terns, including the greater …