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Asif Iqbal
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Asif Iqbal is a development professional in Pakistan and a trained presenter for Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. He is a Programme Development Coordinator at World Vision and enjoys his role in resource mobilization and designing different advocacy and transformational development projects in Pakistan.

Native of the green hilly district of Mansehra in northern Pakistan, Asif is deeply concerned about changing weather patterns and extreme events, which affect the people and natural beauty of his region. Asif is passionately building a community in Pakistan to motivate the youth and NGO sector to take action against climate change.

Asif’s specialties are designing innovative concept papers and proposals in the areas of transformational development and advocacy. He has extensive training experience in climate change, humanitarian protection/vulnerability assessment, proposal writing and organizational capacity building. Asif loves to work in cross-cultural environments, accept diversity and learn about different cultures and people. He enjoys photography of nature, music, traveling and writing.

Blog Entries by Asif Iqbal

Join Us as We Gather Climate Messages for COP18 Negotiators

(1) Comments | Posted November 26, 2012 | 3:39 PM

Qatar and its people are going to be so important in coming days being the host of COP18: The UN Climate Change Conference beginning today until Dec. 7, 2012. The conference bring expectations of billions of people around the world to see whether the UN member countries would be able...

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When Different Cultures Unite on Climate Crisis...

(1) Comments | Posted September 11, 2012 | 3:02 PM

Whether it is a Hurricane Isaac or drought in the U.S., a typhoon in the Philippines or changing monsoon rain patterns in Pakistan, every one of us is living with this new normal. We watched or heard about extraordinary thawing...

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Make Your Own Climate Volunteers

(6) Comments | Posted July 13, 2012 | 3:42 PM

Motivation is a powerful force behind any successful campaign. However when motivation connects with the issue of everyone's life, it becomes a common voice that everyone wants to talk about. "Make Your Own Climate Volunteers" is also one of the campaigns which seeks motivation among people and asks them to...

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A Big NO to Deniers From This Part of the World

(0) Comments | Posted May 8, 2012 | 2:42 AM

A little girl child would have been playing with her doll in her little muddy house somewhere in mountain...

A poor farmer would happily be waiting for his crop to get ready and earn some money for his family in rest of the year...

And some beautiful butterflies would have...

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Think of Your Neighbor on Earth First Before You Reach Neptune

(0) Comments | Posted April 30, 2012 | 5:40 PM

Human wisdom always led us to explore secrets of our universe. In fact, it is the power of knowledge and science that living on the Earth that we can know how big and far our solar system is within the unimagined boundaries of the universe. Studying our solar system can...

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Sustainable Cities in Pakistan -- A Dream in the "New Normal"

(3) Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 7:19 PM

Can we dream for sustainable cities in Pakistan? Sustainable cities and towns are no longer a new concept in the world. However, in a country like Pakistan, they are something new -- a hard but not impossible goal.

A number of cities around the world are taking measures to...

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Girls' Life in the Changing Climate: Stories From the North of Pakistan

(0) Comments | Posted March 12, 2012 | 7:03 PM

As the world celebrated International Women's Day, my thinking goes back to the time of my childhood I spent in my remote village -- a beautiful green and mountainous land in the north of Pakistan.

I remember women and little children getting up before sunrise and help their families in...

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From the Indus to the Mississippi, Climate Change Touches Us All

(17) Comments | Posted January 12, 2012 | 6:11 PM

As we reflect on 2011, a year of extreme weather all over the world, my thoughts have turned back to a very strange summer I experienced not long ago.

That summer, I met a government employee who was working in his office and received a frantic...

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