Pakistan closes the climate “injustice” as the deadly floods hit the country again Climate News

The Pakistani Climate Minister says that the country that faces the “crisis of injustice” because the deadly floods and the harsh weather events struck the country.

The Minister of Climate Change in Pakistan criticized the “crisis of injustice” facing the country and “unbalanced allocation” for financing as heavy sins and the latest sudden floods that cause more damage, destruction and loss of lives.

Pakistan officials said At least 32 people were killed In Punjab and Khyber Bakhtongua’s provinces since the beginning of the seasonal wind season.

Last month, at least 32 people were killed in severe storms in a country that was reported to be harsh weather in the spring, including strong strong storms.

The Climate Average Index Report in 2025 places the Pakistan Summit in the list of countries most affected on the basis of data 2022. After that, the extensive floods were flooded about a third of the country, which affected 33 million people – including the killing of more than 1700, causing damage to $ 14.8 billion, in addition to $ 15.2 billion of economic losses.

Last year, more floods affected thousands, and a wave of heat was killed nearly 600 people.

“I do not look at this as a climate crisis. I look at this as a crisis of justice and this unbalanced allocation that we are talking about,” Pakistan, Moussadik Malik, said to Mossadik Malik. “This unbalanced allocation of green financing, I do not see it as a financing gap. I look at it as an ethical gap.”

Lack of financing

Earlier this year, a former head of the Central Bank of the country said that Pakistan needed an annual investment between 40 to 50 billion dollars until 2050 to meet the challenges of climate change looming on the horizon despite being responsible for about half a percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions.

In January 2023, pledges of $ 10 billion in multilateral and countries were reported. The following year, Pakistan received $ 2.8 billion in international creditors against these pledges.

Earlier this year, the International Monetary Fund said that Pakistan will receive $ 1.3 billion under a new climate flexibility program, which will extend 28 months. But Malik said that these pledges and loans were not sufficient given the situation that Pakistan finds itself.

“The two countries in the world (China and the United States of America) produce 45 percent of carbon emissions. The fact that the 10 best countries in the world represent approximately 70 percent of the carbon burden is also something that people realize. But 85 percent of green financing in the world will go to the same ten countries, while the rest of the world-about 180 countries ODD-gets 10 percent of green financing.

“We pay for them through these irregular climate changes, floods, and agriculture destruction.”

According to a study conducted last year by the Ministry of Climate Change and the Italian Research Institute Evk2cnr, Pakistan is home to 13,000 ice rivers.

However, the gradual rise in temperature also forces the melting of these ice rivers, which increases the risk of flooding, damage to infrastructure, land and land loss, threats of societies and water scarcity.

“In addition to land and life, floods (due to the melting of icebergs) swept through thousands of years of civilization (in the province of Sind). Mosques, temples, schools, hospitals, old buildings and landmarks, everything was washed.

“Add to the loss of education and access to health care, safe drinking water, water transfers, and lack of access to hospitals and clinics, and infant deaths,” the report said.

Last month, Amnesty International said in a report that “Pakistan health care and response systems fail to meet the needs of children and the elderly who are at risk of death and disease amid harsh weather events related to climate change.”

“Children and the elderly in Pakistan suffer from the front line of the Climate Crisis, who are exposed to severe heat or floods that lead to non -proportional levels of death and disease,” said Laura Mills, a researcher in the Amnesty International Crisis Response Program.

This story was produced in partnership with the Politzer Center.