The record-breaking mega-flood in August 2022 that impacted 33 million people in Pakistan brought home to the world the urgency and scale of the climate crisis afflicting developing countries. At the ...

An arial view of cities in Sindh, Pakistan, covered with flood water in 2022. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Ali Hyder Junejo As climate impacts intensify across the globe, the 30th United Nations ...

Pakistan, a country with over a quarter billion people, is one that is extremely vulnerable to climate change.Pakistan, with 25% of its population living in poverty, contributes just 1% of global ...

Pakistan, despite its contribution of only 0.9 percent to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. While the government of Pakistan has made ...

Relentless rains in Pakistan over two months have caused the country's worst flooding in more than a decade. Floodwaters have washed away roads, buildings, and crops. A third of the country, an area ...

ISLAMABAD, November 10, 2022—This year’s heatwave and devastating floods are a reminder that climate change-induced disasters can significantly set back Pakistan’s development ambitions and its ...

Steve Inskeep talks with Pakistan's minister for climate change, Senator Sherry Rehman, about deadly floods and whether disasters have become a new normal in the time of climate change. The climate ...

Raging floods have left one-third of Pakistan submerged and exposed to disease, demonstrating that government-level interventions to date have not been nearly enough in the face of climate change. To ...

When torrential rain in 2022 flooded Abdul Latif’s village in Badin, Pakistan, his roof caved in and he and his six children were forced to live on a road for a month without shelter, clean water or ...

WASHINGTON, June 20, 2024—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved $535 million in financing for Pakistan to support two projects. The additional financing for the Crisis Resilient ...

Islamabad — Authorities in Pakistan issued an emergency appeal for international humanitarian aid as the death toll from 2022's "monster monsoon" season soared over 1,000. Flooding from weeks of ...