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There has been protests against Rising Energy prices in germany. Thousands of people gathered in berlin for the demonstration organized by the fire rights ifd party, a groupie of anti nazi demonstrated held counter protests. Right. Those are the headlines up front is next. I care about helping you with engaging with the rest of the world. I cover foreign policy, national curity. This is a political impasse. Heres the conflict. Are we telling a good story . Were really interested in taking you in to a place that you might not visit otherwise. And to actually feel as if you were there is the amazon reaching the point of no return from deforestation and fires to land grabs and mining. Scientists say we may be seeing the end of the planets, largest rain forest, the effect condemning a 1000000 species to extinction and are likely irreversible acceleration of the climate crisis. That conversation is coming up. But 1st weeks after devastating floods displaced millions in pakistan. The country is still struggling with the aftermath. This week, the United Nations updates humanitarian appeal for the country from 160000000. 00 to 816000000. 00. This is not the 1st time pakistan has felt the effects of the climate crisis. So what role should the International Community play in the wake of such disasters . Earlier i sat down with pakistans minister of state for foreign affairs, this weeks headliner. He knows rabbani car in a rabbani car. Thank you so much for joining me on up front. Over 1500 people have died as a result of catastrophic floods in pakistan, another 33000000 people have been displaced. At least one 3rd of the country is under water. Diseases are spreading rapidly, flood damage is, or its expected to exceed over 30000000000. 00. Youre here at the un general assembly. Can you talk to me a bit about the scope of the devastation in pakistan . Ok, so when you look at numbers which are in tens of millions, we dehumanizing number the number of the guns, a number, and the humans a sort of leave and the numbers is with us, right . So let me define, put it in perspective. This is a population, the size of all of the kingdom of saudi arabia is a population which is larger than all of militia. This is an area which is the same size as the hall of the united kingdom. Thats the scale of the disaster. And then on top of that, its a disaster utilize the been saying it is not of our making, luckily attribute will science now exists to tell us that this is a Climate Change crisis disaster. So the skin is just humongous. And just to be able to grapple with the enormity of what happened and the task ahead is something that didnt make you hopeless, but thats the challenge for leadership not to and for the people whove already shown such great deal of i dont like the word resilient use the word veneers because it somehow means that, you know, no matter what this did, its fine, theyre living so its fine. I dont think it should be like that. And it isnt. It should not be like that. But in some ways it is because i dont think we have built enough structures in the world in the global order, in the, in the global architecture for crime, Climate Change, lead events to be able to grapple or diva des crisis is effectively when you think about the global capacity to deal with these issues. As you pointed to some of argue the International Response has been insufficient. Un secretary general Antonio Gutierrez said, there is a lot of attention on the war and ukraine, but people tend to forget that there was another warmed the war we are waging on nature. And nature is striking back. Many of said, look, theres been a powerful response to the war in ukraine. We saw extraordinary responses to the flooding in europe. Has it been adequate, the Global Response to pakistan . Look, were very thankful and grateful and for whatever response weve gotten. And i think the response has been, i mean i can, i can tell you that countries like there you are, you, for instance, have an ear bridge, countries they took, you have assisted a lot, many other countries. Jain, of course, continues to assist a United States game in with, in large numbers in terms of, you know, on the un shy shipping and sort of the you came in europe in countries. I dont really want to leave any country, but pretty much the whole world has come to help, right . But as i said, now the scale of the graces is 33000000 people. The number of dense required is in millions. And the number of tents available is in hundreds of thousands at best. So thats the, thats the gap. How do you fill the gap . The world is not prepared to fill that gap. And that is, and therefore a, you know, to me, this is literally our in knock from whether you, you know, believe in the law as we do or my, the nature who, whatever nomenclature, use, great. This is a weak up god and dime has already run out. But if the do not see this as e grid warning off things to come within the same season, literally march onwards because dance or forest fires, pakistan saw severe drought conditions. Pakistan saw 3 degrees tend to grid higher temperatures are that one of the hot summers that weve ever had in some areas fired water than was ever even noted. There was glacial melting in the same area that we currently have drought, there was heavy. Oak currently have floods, there was heavy dough conditions. So if you see at this scale of all of that, you realize that this is, is serious Climate Change event. In august, the International Monetary fund approved an additional 1100000000. 00 and bail out funds to pakistan. Now, as is often the case with im, if laws there are condition the condition is often austerity. In this case, unfair steady was one. Our conditions, ah, the government under Prime Minister ers chabarise sharif has eliminated fuel and power subsidies and diesel pump prices have gone up by almost 60 percent. Ok, people are struggling with double digit inflation yet in august your Prime Minister said that pakistan is called economically in sleeved by the iron maam. So then why take the money look and this is how it works, right . You need Macro Economic stability for the country to have a chance in order to have macroeconomic stability. You need a fun program to be able to enable other Funding Sources to come. This is how the financial bill will Architecture Works. You know this better than i can explain to you. Now when we have the floods in pakistan and floods of the biblical proportion. Ok. So this is an extraordinary event, not on the pakistan skin. This is an extraordinary event on the global scale. This is in the rent which was thought to good by irresponsible behavior of pakistan. This was an event which was triggered by response, civil behavior for decades, odds of industrialization, but did not happen to have in my control on the poor. 33000000 people or night spirit, on the receiving end of it. Having said that, would you expect these 323000000. 00 people to do, to have 1st down into floods . Now down into conditionality is an extraordinary event. Like this requires extraordinary response. My fear is having seen how the structures work, that we will come in crunch of ordinary responses. And my fear is that the people who have drowned in this floods the counselor bit less for them. Right . And where is now you could avoid to problem by rebuilding resiliency in an adaptable, mad with adaptation as it score and give hope. But our concern is that when it comes to the hard phase of the building, resilient years, we want to, when the numbers are to the tune of 30000000000. 00, just the replacement cost, not the rebuilding cost, perhaps here then how far, how, how shot would be fall, and if we fall short, what would be the cost of that . It will not only be to plug a sign, it will be to everyone i did indeed. So. So theres the question of what we do if we dont receive funds, right . Thats a question that youve addressed, but theres also a question of what happens when you receive funds and you can end up in a very familiar cycle, which is that you receive, i am a funding, you get conditional as assistance and you end up trapped in a kind of cycle of, of receiving this stuff, but not necessarily improving, not necessarily developing because of all the commitment youve made in order to receive the conditional funding. Actually im, im not so fond of the commitments if he, me, for other people sick. Im fond of commitments that mistake, that he me for up on people say, i think this whole a cycle of are trying to appease other peoples commitments rather than commitments to young people is a bad cycle. And this is the real world doing their Architecture Works right . So theyll be all this finished. Now ladies attached by different headquarters. Want to now create a project which will, which will appease their conscience more than the realities on the ground in some ways. And by the time it hits the ground in pakistan, its perhaps not really according to the requirements of the people of focus on. Right. Its a typical sake of we need to come up with a model at, in, in, in the project days, mod, which is not only sellable, but it is something which builds in adaptability resilience, but is also fully in tune in line with the demand and needs of the people and not only catering to the needs of, you know, what we may consider the funding may be coming from, right. Would you make of the argument . They make a project such as dams have actually worse and natural disasters . The worry that sounds kind investments and mega projects versus the kind of climate resilient local infrastructure approach is putting people in nature of it. Thats interesting approach, right . Because about 10 years from today, or 12 years from today, focus on wanted to start to go projects with borderline finance fund funding and financing and even told or we do not do cool anymore right now. So it was fine for all the developers to have done calls, but when it focused on wanting to exploit its own Natural Resources to be able to provide to let you know energy. We were unable to do that with funding from the bank. I believe that what you have to look at is cumulative responsibility, cumulative emissions. So if im in the midterm, been 2 years back, and i have emitted will. And now im going to not be the price for it, but have developing countries with low, you know, capacity and low resources to pay the entire price of my emissions. So i, you know, confused like you said that you guys are the conflict happens and people have started their code plans again. So we are not allowed and they are allowed. So theres an element of unfairness in all of this. Back in 2010 of floods killed early, 2000 people. I think that they parked on been here before 11000000 people were displaced then as well. And yet a mid us o. S. A climate and water expert on pakistan said that in 2022 quote, theres just nothing in pakistan in terms of disaster resilient infrastructure, and that people were literally left to fend for themselves. Now your party was in power for 3 years after the 2010 floods that critique applies to you in your party. No, no, i would like to really be able to ask her the same questions that would be required to be asked that will do called resilience and with and readiness for country experiences in new york city today, babysitting manhattan, the heart of the word of the developer right, was to were to get for it is each 100 percent maureen, than it typically does. Intern jerome. Right. The typical couch materials which receive one from front of rain and flooding in the sun did not receive the toy. There were still in dope conditions. So were still looking at it from a, from a, from among, from thats where this is a climate. Is there anything that couldve been done or are they any infrastructure perspective, from an infrastructure perspective, much more can be done . Absolutely. Well, what could have been done . So then let me tell you very clearly what could have been done and what will be done as a big trailer. So did the thing to notice is that the typical areas which receive one soon did not receive the same amount of rain for the typically. So this happened in an e, typical lydia and a non typical area. Now despite having said that, what we need to do is that wherever we build back, we have channels to make sure that the flow of water can be management better than it. Good. And we build back infrastructure in the we, for instance, some of the schools withstood rate that you build back in the way that they can survive, said severity of water. And, and the fust bro do must be to ensure that the water can be channeled better. But please understand the enormity of the challenger time, 32000000 people. I will, i will share this with you. A lot of people came on the tv screens and then you go to them and said we received nothing and did not like they actually did not receive anything. How can you feed 33000000 people all at the same time when we went to the whole world and the horrible came out, opened their hearts opened this story. Just give us whatever dense they had. You know how many tents we received less than the 1000000. You know, how many people were dismissed . 33000000. So i think the globe, the global order, is ill prepared to be able to deal with what is coming are we, i am not Good Business until this Partner Summit is facing an economic crisis. And yet, it was announced in june that the country would be increasing its Defense Budget by 11 percent, or at the same time, it reduced the allocation for its Public Sector Development Program by 19 percent. Why the government chosen to increase military spinning rather than allocating those funds for the necessary infrastructure to protect people from the harm . Mccracken . Sure, i could not say that thats rude, that you want to go at all. I think the trend had been in focus on different regions, military spending was actually decreasing now, hero. And so when it comes to real terms, i think the increase would be very, very minimal. Just to keep up with existing infrastructure. And thats why its really important. And therefore i was in the session which was on humanitarian assistance and they kept on talking about how the my doing the system needs are increasing. And i said that from one side we are feeding the bees to creating humanitarian systems requirements. More because conflict is increasing economics, television is increasing. Climate change to good events or increasing reading nothing to deal with the crisis with the, with the reason with the business for the crisis, whether its Climate Change or economic starvation for crisis has been triggered by all conflict in our region. Conflict right now being triggered in some ways with, with Climate Change and we still the biggest threat to National Security at this point. Right . Mean, it said in 2015 the us conducted a drill, simulating an earthquake in the indian ocean. And it was found that the soon as the waves from an earthquake could reach karachi in one and a half hours in the entire city. Again, were good to have large military if karachi, the economic backbone and main city water, you know, to be honest, the things have changed in our region, right . I mean, since 971, we really did not have an active conflict. If you dont take a few minor conflicts, take them away. But on to years, back off we had from a neighbor military jets into pakistan, years this proclaimed focus on the air space into our territory and into a territory. And then back and neutral on it was proven that the claims that the made of a, you know, going after terrorists outfits, et cetera. None existed on the cheese, existed over there. Right now when Something Like this happens, i cannot make the case with that. You dont need mimicry spending anymore. I need we need to have jets, which are in a position to be able to fight back. So when you have confrontations, leg that you are in need, you are ensuring that our i wish i owed our desire to be able to swore will be completely from that type of spending and going to serious, you know, adaptability of, forget it up to, belittle i mean adaptability is a major part of what we need to do, but this also were still struggling with proper education infrastructure, Proper Health infrastructure, proper route and farm to market goods. Proper economic infrastructure rates when the country like this, which has many, many places to spend its reason is forced to re look at, you know, military spending again. And if youd notice, i mean all over the World Military spending is currently being celebrated, isnt it . Rep and critique . I honestly head critique all over. Right . I mean were, i know, mark, i think it was a dime and it was being critiqued. But right now, if you look at that, you know, i think trump also started talking about what the central g d p. Are you spending on military and now everybody celebrating . Yes, we are increasing military spending and those countries which were not carrying large armies and now carrying are strong intention to so we are actually feeding the b straight now. And this is a dime when really, i think there will be more or less for us to conduct wars. And then i think the secretary said something to this extent in this. And i have to say that i understand that the, the un may not be the most celebrated body right now, but to have deep respect, deep abiding requests for, into new gators, for at least seeing the red stuff rate alpha calling out where we are falling miserably miserably behind then what leadership requires right now in terms of of fighting for the s d, g s fight fighting for rear rear Climate Change. Not only adaptability financing, but looking at the whole architecture and seeing that why should we not be ahead of the go by bank by behind a cub hiena romani card. Thank you so much for joining us at the front. Yeah. Ah, is the amazon at a Tipping Point in brazil under president jeered boston auto. Deforestation has intensified significantly, specifically in indigenous areas increasing by more than 138 percent during his 1st 3 years in office. In recent years, weve also seen a traumatic uptake in mining agribusiness and land grabs while indigenous rights have been undermined. But deforestation, and its impact on communities is more than a moral quandary. What happens in the amazon doesnt occur in a vacuum. It affects all of us, and it is affecting us now. So the question is, are we headed down a path of no return . Joining us to discuss this from keith though ecuador is elisia guzman. She is Deputy Director of the Amazon Program at stan, that earth. Shes also one of the lead researchers on the report amazonia, against the clock. And from sao paulo brazil were joined by Tasso Acevedo Technical Coordinator for observe authorial de lima and former director general of the brazilian fart service. Thank you both for joining me on up front elisia. Im going to start with you. According to the data presented in the amazonia report, from 985 until 2020, 26 percent of the amazon has undergone transformation. Most of it categorize as irreversible transformation, while conservation measured have stymied some of the environmental destruction over the years. Theres still a continuing pattern of loss that were witnessing. If this trend goes on, what does it mean for the Planetary Health . Ah, in practical terms, theres a lot of the articles in studies about that taking place, the m s and e r n is still many authors think that were not there yet, however, that different data that has been released lately shows that we are in the midst of the Tipping Point, so its not a teacher scenario that its a least let me, let me part of that because that were Tipping Point comes up a lot. And when we say Tipping Point, we mean that point after which the rain for us will be completely lost, but the timeline for reaching that point is a question mark for many. For me its still kind of great what we mean by a Tipping Point. And how close we actually are, i hear different numbers. Can you break down what Tipping Point is, what it means that you know, playing is playing where theres a breakdown. It said its where the forest can nod um, re generate on its own. So it starts a process of die back and we cannot put a date like on to state these area will disappear. But you can see that theres a transformation of viagra system due to the lack of red j o of its own regeneration test. So people been raising alarms about the destruction of the amazon for decades. Now, what, what are the lived impacts now and also moving forward of losing more of the amazon . Well, that there, you know, different scales, right . So you can think about the planet as a whole. If we lose the amazon, if you take the amazon of the equation, the temperature, the global temperature could rise by 0. 25 degrees. Does means that we probably cant achieve the, the buyers agreement in terms of, you know, Climate Change. So for example, if you take, if you take it the amazon off the equation, we lose 30 percent off the rainfall in the country. So we can see that those impacts starting to happen and right now. So it seems that deforestation is largely the consequence of economic drivers. If we look at brazil just as an example, the countrys National Debt is about 78 percent of the g. D p. Up some argue that mining Oil Extraction and stuff like that the amazon is needed in order to bolster and emerging market. But what do you say to politicians were pushing these solutions as the response, as a wave easing the States Economic woes . I mean, we can use the real data from the past to show that this, you know, there is no connection with when one thing in the other necessarily. So if you see like between 20042012 in brazil, the deforestation of the amazon dropped down 80 percent, 80 percent. And that was the last period of Economic Growth in brazil. So we were growing 4 to 5 percent a year in terms of g d p, for example, the debit was coming down. The exports are including from agriculture products and mining products exploded. So what i think is that when you have a cease deforestation in brazil, 98 percent of the deforestation have elements of illegality before stations link a lot with lack of governance. So if you have a Good Governance in the country, you will have deforestation coming down and Good Governance is absolutely important to have a, a health economy. So i think thats decreasing. Deforestation is a drive for a better economy and not the opposite. Early say your report lays out solutions for preserving 80 percent of the amazon by 2025. And it points toward forgiving existing debt in exchange for protections of indigenous territories and, and, and of course, Priority Areas as well. Why do you see that forgiveness as opposed to other policies . Is such a key move for preventing further deforestation . Now its not either or we have to start thinking of systemic solutions. Many of the supply chains, oil, leather, and others that are um, that fuel destruction in the amazon e. R m come from industrialized nations. So for example, 89 percent of the oil in the amazon is pretty nectar, and most of it goes to the us and their european banks in both us back in bell. Theres us banks involvement. And there are Many Oil Companies and inter mediators that work in the, in the supply chain. So talking about debt forgiveness, its a good way to involve multilaterals bilateral debt and also the private bonds just to acquire more consciousness of from the linkage between the global north and the global south. And how we all are responsible of whats happening. Well, this is an issue of absolute critical concern. I thank you both for joining me to weigh in on it. So at least thank you so much for joining me. All right, that is our show up front. Well be back next week. Ah 18 months off to me and most military coup, the balance of power is shifting us. Thousands of pro democracy activists join forces with ethnic minority insurgents forming a united front to take on the military. People in power goes behind the scenes to reveal growing optimism that the coalition of Peoples Defense forces could transform the countrys future for me and most frontline, on a just 0 for stories of hope and inspiration. Short documentary use from around the world that celebrate curry and resilience in times of timely on how to select on. Now to them we are all response even people far away are also helping with the environment, problems in the amazon because their consumers i teach kids about the options are facing today. Ive been working in earnest, trying to find ways to get this language to get one to wait, do as to why and what are you going to do to keep out the language that keeps the red blood women, right . They have one back to applied for a while. If you got married, i was told to think that women were made a challenge in the region. 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