PAKISTAN earlier this year hosted the World Environment Day in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme as part of efforts to raise awareness and tackle the problem of climate change. This year the theme was Ecosystem Restoration, and it marked the launch of the UN Decade of Restoration. During the event, Pakistan urged the developed nations to come forward and help the most vulnerable nations by establishing a Green Fund.
Currently, climate change is a major existential threat to humanity, accelerated by massive carbon emissions, fossil fuels, deforestation and greenhouse gases, leading to global warming, which, in turn, causes melting glaciers, rising sea levels, changing rain patterns, droughts, flooding and frequent heatwaves. All this threatens food security.
Climate change and a green economy Dr Hassnain Javed
Climate change, global warming and carbon emissions can no longer be dismissed as mere jargon cunningly employed by environmental activists to draw attention to their work. No, these are realities that affect the global population. According to the Geneva-based iDMC (internal displacement monitoring centre): “Nearly Nearly 1,900 disasters triggered 24.9 million new displacements across 140 countries and territories in 2019.” Its Global Report on Internal Displacement 2020 went on to note that “[t]his is the highest figure recorded since 2012 and three times the number of displacements caused by conflict and violence.” We are now looking at annual displacement figures of 20 million, on average. That we are facing a severe humanitarian crisis cannot be underestimated. Especially as the number of migrants is expected to reach 140 million by 2050 worldwide.
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Pakistan among top 10 countries affected due to climate change
Islamabad
February 9, 2021
Islamabad:Pakistan has persistently been reckoned among the top 10 most affected countries due to climate change where its recent ranking descended from number 5. A recent German Watch Report of the Long-term Global Climate Risk Index 2020, a global think-tank working on climate change, had rated Pakistan number 8th most affected country due to adverse impacts of climate change.
The data was reckoned from 2000 to 2019 that mentioned the country facing 0.3 per cent life losses per 100,000 inhabitants and $3.8 billion economic losses due to recurrent phenomenon of floods and climate change induced catastrophes.
Owing to the environment-friendly policies of the incumbent federal government, Pakistan has dropped to 8th place from 5th on the Long-Term Global Climate