The vice president of the PPP, Senator Sherry Rehman, expressed on Saturday the “serious concern” about Pakistan that exceeded the list of countries most affected by climate change, stating that training Pakistani to protect themselves from the severe climate is the need for the time.
He Climate Risk Index (CRI), published by Germanwatch, classify countries by the human and economic toll of the extreme climate. The last edition highlights the growing losses and the urgent need for greater climatic resistance and action.
In the report published in February, Pakistan was classified as the country most vulnerable to climate change in 2022, followed by Belize and Italy. Rehman shared the report to his page X, stating that Pakistan had been included in the report as the country most affected by climate change.
“CRI occupies the countries for the human and economic toll of the extreme climate, measuring the risk,” he wrote, adding that the report “should serve as a great call for attention.”
In a longer statement published by the PPP, Rehman regretted that Pakistan is now the most vulnerable country in the world to climatic risks.
“Now it would be bad to say that Pakistan is in the top 10, unfortunately, we are number one,” said Rehman. “The strong increase in the risks of tormentous rains, hail storms [and] The merger of the glacier shows the severity of the situation. “
By pointing out that Pakistan has suffered more from climate change despite the minimum impact on the environment, the senator asked why the country is suffering the consequences of the contributions of the international community to global warming.
“Both lives and economy are at risk of environmental events. Why should countries like us be punished for the massive use of the world’s carbon? The time for environmental justice has come,” said Rehman.
“The international community cannot have sustainable development without environmental justice,” he added. “Take a real account of global warming, only then then developing countries and the poor can escape the effects of climate change.”
The senator also pointed out in the statement that “the imposition of an environmental emergency, policy reforms and global aid have become an imperative for Pakistan.”
Pakistan has seen the effects of climate change in unprecedented floods in 2022, mainly caused by the rain of the record monzón, the flood floods of the glacial lake and other factors.
The CRI stressed that more than 33 million people were affected and more than 1,700 lives were lost due to floods. He also says that climate change caused the seriousness of the extreme rain of the monzón to increase by 50 percent.
Not only that, more than eight million people lost their homes and were displaced internally due to the floods of 2022, while 1.3 million houses were damaged. The problem was aggravated by the lack of drinking water availability and an increase in water transmitted diseases, such as diarrhea, cholera, dengue, malaria and skin infections.
