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Government budget cuts threaten Pakistan's climate change efforts

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Thu, 11 Jul 2013 01:35 PM
Author: Saleem Shaikh and Sughra Tunio

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A sharp cut in government funds for Pakistan’s main climate change agency may mean little to thousands of people in homes perched along a flood-prone river in the city of Rawalpindi. But it could tip them into crisis during the monsoon season that has just begun.

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