With over a 1,000 individuals lifeless, 33 million individuals displaced, and a 3rd of the nation underwater, the current flooding in Pakistan is being described as a “humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions” by the nation’s Local weather Change Minister.
Hundreds of thousands of individuals’s livelihoods have been washed away, and this 12 months there was a 400% improve in monsoon rains. So, is South Asia now the epicentre of a disaster in our local weather?
Pakistan emits 0.3% of worldwide CO2 emissions, so ought to Western nations answerable for a a lot bigger share pay for the loss and harm?
BBC Newsnight’s Science and Expertise Correspondent Kate Lamble speaks to Sara Hayat from Local weather Motion Now! Pakistan, Dr Fahad Saeed from Local weather Analytics and different local weather specialists.
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