Foreign minister urges countries and IMF to help stricken country after climate change minister speaks of climate ‘catastrophe’
Sherry Rehman, a Pakistan senator and federal minister for climate change, said on Sunday the country was “at ground zero of the frontline of extreme weather events”.
Rehman said on Sunday that the warming climate was causing glaciers in mountainous northern regions to melt faster than normal, exacerbating the impact of the heavy rain. Pakistan has more glaciers – 7,532 – than anywhere outside the polar regions. It was important for developed countries to do more to reduce their dependency on fossil fuels, Bradshaw said. “Typically, countries that contribute the least to the problem of warming such as Pakistan are the ones that pay the biggest price in terms of weather disasters.”
The unprecedented monsoon season has affected all four of the country’s provinces. Nearly 300,000 homes have been destroyed, numerous roads rendered impassable and electricity outages have been widespread, affecting more than 33 million people – one in seven Pakistanis.
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