Jamil Ahmad Journalist Profile

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Opinion | AI’s appetite

Jan 17, 2025 | kathmandupost.com | Jamil Ahmad

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most consequential technologies today. It is dramatically changing the world, altering business models and ushering in transformational development in education, healthcare, communication and agriculture, to name a few. It has introduced efficiencies to our workplaces, improved industrial productivity, optimised resource use and reduced waste. AI’s rapid rise is attributed to availability of data and a phenomenal growth in computational power.
AI & environment

Jan 13, 2025 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is one of the most consequential technologies today. It is dramatically changing the world, altering business models and ushering in transformational development in education, healthcare, communication, and agriculture, to name a few. It has introduced efficiencies to our workplaces, improved industrial productivity, optimised resource use and reduced waste. AI’s rapid rise is attributed to availability of data and a phenomenal growth in computational power.
Growing desertification is drying up the planet

Nov 24, 2024 | arabnews.com | Jamil Ahmad

Growing desertification is drying up the planet Short Urlhttps://arab.news/rdg3g World leaders will convene at a high-level UN conference on desertification in Riyadh next month. Another deadly consequence of the multifaceted climate crisis, desertification is growing fast as heat waves and rising temperatures have become the norm. About 100 million hectares of healthy and productive land gets degraded each year.
Road to Baku

Oct 19, 2024 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad

IN 2015, the Paris Climate Accord, a legally binding international treaty, established a structured plan for climate action with step-by-step targets for emission reductions, aiming for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. It acknowledged that reducing GHG emissions alone would not be enough to control climate change: mutually supportive adaptation policies would be necessary to protect vulnerable people from its impact.
Rising seas

Sep 20, 2024 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad

SEA-LEVEL rise is among the most ominous of multifaceted risks attributed to climate change, and has serious implications for billions of people. Rising sea levels are one of the primary indicators of global warming, originating in the early 20th century, when fossil fuels consumed by the expanding industrial complex released huge amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Reinvigorating multilateralism in an era of global crises

Sep 11, 2024 | arabnews.com | Jamil Ahmad

Reinvigorating multilateralism in an era of global crises Jamil Ahmad September 11, 2024 13:33 In a world fraught with various challenges, the need for robust multilateralism has never been more urgent (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/mt99v With the world facing a slew of complex global crises — not least conflict, poverty, hunger, climate change, nature loss and pollution — multilateral action faces a formidable challenge in meeting global development goals and addressing emerging...
Child rights crisis

Aug 23, 2024 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad

AS the planet bakes in the hottest summer ever, with each passing month warmer than the last, the climate crisis is depriving children of some of their basic human rights and reducing opportunities for them to secure and live a decent life. Extreme weather events linked to climate change disproportionately affect children’s health and lives. We are facing a child rights crisis, a situation that is already alarming in poor regions that are hit first and worst by climate change.
Deep-sea mining

Aug 8, 2024 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad

MINING in the deep sea has turned into a hot topic in the discourse on controlling planet-warming gases in the atmosphere. To steadily transition away from fossil fuels, low-carbon technologies will require uninterrupted supplies of large quantities of critical minerals, or ‘battery minerals’ — cobalt, nickel, copper, and manganese. Scientific evidence suggests that small rocks, or ‘nodules’, on the seabed, usually at a depth of four to six kilometres, contain large amounts of critical minerals.
Green shields

Jul 9, 2024 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad

THE sizzling heat that parts of Asia and other regions are grappling with is a phenomenon that is now far from a climate anomaly; it is becoming the new norm. This extreme weather carries grave socioeconomic implications, claiming lives and leading to health problems that affect daily lives, jobs, and productivity. This year is set to become the hottest on record, and if current trends continue, the record may not stand for long.
Climate debt trap

Jun 14, 2024 | dawn.com | Jamil Ahmad |Zofeen Ebrahim |Al Karim Datoo

HEAVY and rising debt has emerged as one of the toughest hurdles for developing nations to address climate change, alleviate poverty, and seek economic development. The total external debt of 118 low- and middle-income countries doubled to $3.1 trillion in 2022 from $1.5tr in 2010, rising to about 15 per cent of their GDP. The amount of finance required to meet their debt payments has also increased.