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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for the Asia region noted that the sensitivity of agriculture-dependent economies (such as Pakistan) toward climate change arises from their distinct geography, demographic trends, socioeconomic factors, and lack of adaptive capacity that when taken together ...
Climate change in Pakistan is a major issue for the country. Pakistan is highly vulnerable to climate change. As with the changing climate in South Asia as a whole, the climate of Pakistan has changed over the past several decades, with significant impacts on the environment and people. [16]
A set of deadly floods in Pakistan shows how the South Asian nation and other developing countries are bearing a disproportionate burden from climate change, according to Pakistan’s government ...
Pakistan contributes less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, but is one of the places most vulnerable to climate change. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] A study by an international team of climate scientists says that global heating made the flooding up to 50% worse and future floods more likely. [ 17 ]
The flooding this summer comes after record-breaking monsoon rainfall in the south Asian country.
The Pakistani people are facing a ‘monsoon on steroids’, Antonio Guterres warned as more than 1,000 were killed in devastating flooding.
The floods in Pakistan began in late July 2010, resulting from heavy monsoon rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and, Balochistan regions of Pakistan, which affected the Indus River basin. Approximately one-fifth of Pakistan's total land area was affected by floods, with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province facing the brunt of the damage ...
More than 33 million people in Pakistan are struggling to deal with a monsoon season supercharged by climate change. Torrential rainfall has dragged on for weeks, killing more than 1,100 people ...