Gwadar: Centrepiece of China’s Pakistan investment faces existential threat from climate change
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Gwadar: Centrepiece of China’s Pakistan investment faces existential threat from climate change

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Pakistan’s Gwadar, which is central to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, is facing an existential threat from climate as it stands battered by torrential rains Fishers' boats are docked along the beach next to a new built highway in Gwadar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. “Many low-lying areas in the town will be partially or completely submerged if the sea level continues to rise.” The sea, once a blessing for Gwadar’s fishing and domestic tourism sectors, has become an existential threat to lives and livelihoods. “Waves have become more violent due to the rising sea temperatures and eroded beaches,” said Abdul Rahim, deputy environment director at Gwadar Development Authority. But they’re a small solution to a massive problem as Gwadar’s people and businesses are fighting climate change on different fronts. Officials say it’s because of climate change but, whatever it is, we’re suffering.” Gwadar’s fishing community is also hurting.

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Gwadar Book Festival: A Literary Call to Action Amid Climate Crisis
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Gwadar Book Festival: A Literary Call to Action Amid Climate Crisis

The Diplomat  

Last month, Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, which is best known as the gateway of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, was transformed into a book lover's paradise. While a range of topics were discussed at the festival sessions, it was climate change that resonated the most with the local community, given Gwadar’s unique environmental vulnerabilities. Despite contributing less than 1 percent …

A city looked at the sea as a blessing. It’s now sinking into it
1 month, 2 weeks ago

A city looked at the sea as a blessing. It’s now sinking into it

The Independent  

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The sea was once a blessing for the Pakistani city of Gwadar. But it’s become a curse
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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The sea was once a blessing for the Pakistani city of Gwadar. But it’s become a curse

Associated Press  

GWADAR, Pakistan — There was a time when few people in the coastal Pakistani city of Gwadar understood what climate change was. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print Fishers work after returning from sea in Gwadar, Pakistan, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard …

Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan will affect 200,000 people, a top UN official warns
9 months, 1 week ago

Unusually heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan will affect 200,000 people, a top UN official warns

Associated Press  

ISLAMABAD — An estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan could be affected by the upcoming monsoon season, which is expected to bring heavier rains than usual, a top U.N. official warned on Thursday. Analysts and government officials say Pakistan in recent years failed to achieve goals for economic growth because of man-made disasters, which have repeatedly hit the country in the …

Photos: Pakistan’s fishers submerged in ‘climate anxiety’
2 years, 4 months ago

Photos: Pakistan’s fishers submerged in ‘climate anxiety’

Al Jazeera  

Pir Bhakkar, Sindh – Fishing is the centre of Muhammad Kasim’s life. Unprecedented floods have affected the livelihoods of millions of people across Pakistan, destroying crops and livestock, including fish, two primary sources of income for rural households. The fishing industry, which is worth $650m and is the key source of income for many in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, …

Drive for climate compensation grows after Pakistan’s floods
2 years, 5 months ago

Drive for climate compensation grows after Pakistan’s floods

Associated Press  

DADU, Pakistan — Every part of Rajul Noor’s life has been wrecked by this summer’s massive monsoon-driven floods. But at COP26 in Glasgow last year, the United States and European Union members rejected demands for a fund to compensate poor countries for “loss and damage” -- destruction already wrought by climate change. Instead, they have spoken forcefully of rich countries’ …

Drive for climate compensation grows after Pakistan's floods
2 years, 5 months ago

Drive for climate compensation grows after Pakistan's floods

The Independent  

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The Full Report: Pakistan – The Great Deluge
2 years, 5 months ago

The Full Report: Pakistan – The Great Deluge

Al Jazeera  

A ‘monsoon on steroids’ has affected 33 million Pakistanis and caused unprecedented flooding linked to climate change. We waged a war against nature with burning up with our addiction to fossil fuels and now nature is waging a war on us,” Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s climate change minister, told Al Jazeera. The government wants world powers to incorporate compensation as part …

PM Sharif describes Pakistan as a 'sea of water' after floods; calls for action on climate change
2 years, 6 months ago

PM Sharif describes Pakistan as a 'sea of water' after floods; calls for action on climate change

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday told the leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation that Pakistan looked like "a sea of water" after unprecedented floods hit his country and called for immediate action to tackle climate change. Mr. Sharif was addressing the SCO's Council of Heads of State Summit in the Uzbek city of Samarkand, where he spoke about the …

Warming, other factors worsened Pakistan floods, study finds
2 years, 6 months ago

Warming, other factors worsened Pakistan floods, study finds

The Hindu  

Climate change likely juiced rainfall by up to 50% late last month in two southern Pakistan provinces, but global warming wasn't the biggest cause of the country's catastrophic flooding that has killed more than 1,500 people, a new scientific analysis finds. Pakistan's overall vulnerability, including people living in harm's way, is the chief factor in the disaster that at one …

Warming, other factors worsened Pakistan floods, study finds
2 years, 6 months ago

Warming, other factors worsened Pakistan floods, study finds

Associated Press  

Climate change likely juiced rainfall by up to 50% late last month in two southern Pakistan provinces, but global warming wasn’t the biggest cause of the country’s catastrophic flooding that has killed more than 1,500 people, a new scientific analysis finds. Pakistan’s overall vulnerability, including people living in harm’s way, is the chief factor in the disaster that at one …

Climate Change: Leaving Pakistan out to dry
2 years, 6 months ago

Climate Change: Leaving Pakistan out to dry

Al Jazeera  

Months of torrential downpours and flooding have hounded Pakistan, and much of the blame is falling on climate change. Halla Mohieddeen: Al Jazeera’s Zein Basravi has been walking, driving and floating through the country’s most affected areas. Zein Basravi: So foreign aid, we’ve seen echoes of past crises, like old tents with UN markings and, and others on them that …

Pakistan flooding: Climate Minister Sherry Rehman calls for international action.
55 years, 2 months ago

Pakistan flooding: Climate Minister Sherry Rehman calls for international action.

Slate  

This story was originally published by the Guardian and has been republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rich polluting countries, which are predominantly to blame for the “dystopian” climate breakdown, have broken their promises to reduce emissions and help developing countries adapt to global heating, according to Pakistan’s minister for climate change, who said reparations were long …

Pakistan floods show that climate adaptation requires international support and regional co-op
2 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan floods show that climate adaptation requires international support and regional co-op

India TV News  

Highlights One in 100-year heat wave, rainfall over nine times the average rainfall in the southeastern Sindh. Human-induced climate change has caused these unusual weather events: a one in a 100-year heat wave and rainfall over nine times the average rainfall in the southeastern Sindh province. A fraction In 2019, Pakistan’s greenhouse gas emissions stood at about 433 million tonnes …

Pakistan Has Learned No Lesson to Deal With Floods or Other Climate Calamities
2 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan Has Learned No Lesson to Deal With Floods or Other Climate Calamities

The Quint  

The official government figures show that more than 1300 people have been killed in the recent mega floods in Pakistan that is already going through a political storm of its own. Higher than normal monthly temps in April, May, and June caused dry winds to rise up leaving a huge vacuum which was filled up by moisture-laden air from the …

How is extreme weather changing Pakistan?
2 years, 6 months ago

How is extreme weather changing Pakistan?

Al Jazeera  

On Tuesday, September 6 at 19:30 GMT: Unprecedented flooding in Pakistan has left millions of people in ruin, with the country’s central government and provincial authorities scrambling to provide urgent help to those who need it. Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has called the deluge a “climate catastrophe”, while climate change minister Sherry Rehman says the country is being disproportionately …

Pakistan could’ve averted the climate catastrophe it’s facing
2 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan could’ve averted the climate catastrophe it’s facing

Live Mint  

If you’re looking for an emblem of why Pakistan will struggle to recover from the floods that have killed more than 1,000 since June, consider its latest bailout from the International Monetary Fund agreed Monday. Flood management forms one of the biggest parts of China’s budget, with $144 billion invested in these projects in 2017, amounting to a larger sum …

Pakistan floods highlight need for climate ‘loss and damage’ help
2 years, 6 months ago

Pakistan floods highlight need for climate ‘loss and damage’ help

The Hindu  

Rich carbon polluters should feel “moral pressure” to help fund climate-vulnerable nations wracked by weather extremes such as Pakistan, where monstrous flooding has caused devastation, diplomats and observers told AFP. “This is not a freak accident,” said Nabeel Munir, Pakistan’s ambassador to Seoul and chair of the largest negotiating bloc of developing nations at U.N. climate negotiations. Mr. Munir said …

EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming
2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming

Associated Press  

The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, melting glaciers, people living in harm’s way, and poverty. So far this year the rain is running at more than 780% above average levels,” said Abid Qaiyum Suleri, executive director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute and a member …

EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming
2 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Pakistan fatal flooding has hallmarks of warming

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. So far this year the rain is running at …

Photos: Concerns as Pakistan glaciers melt
2 years, 8 months ago

Photos: Concerns as Pakistan glaciers melt

Al Jazeera  

As dawn breaks over Javed Rahi’s mountain village, a loud boom shatters the silence and a torrent of water comes cascading down from the melting glacier nearby, followed by a thick cloud of smoke. But rising global temperatures linked to climate change are causing the glaciers to rapidly melt, creating thousands of glacial lakes. At least 16 such glacial lake …

Pakistan is facing an existential crisis
3 years, 5 months ago

Pakistan is facing an existential crisis

Al Jazeera  

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its latest report in August 2021, on the heels of one of the hottest and most devastating summers on record: floods in northern Europe and China, wildfires in the US, and heatwaves everywhere. Local and international environmental experts have long been warning that, without urgent and drastic action, things will get worse …

Pakistan’s Climate Wake-up Call
4 years, 9 months ago

Pakistan’s Climate Wake-up Call

The Diplomat  

On April 19, almost a month after a nationwide lockdown had been imposed, Pakistan’s second largest city, Lahore, witnessed a 63 percent plunge in average PM2.5 particulate matter pollution. Even so, a major stumbling block aggravating Pakistan’s energy mix is the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, which has been repeatedly touted as a “game changer” for the country since its …

Amitav Ghosh speaks on the 'climate apocalypse' and how India is already feeling the effects
6 years ago

Amitav Ghosh speaks on the 'climate apocalypse' and how India is already feeling the effects

India Today  

Amidst the ongoing climate march worldwide and its serious repercussions for the survival of humanity, acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh forewarns the audiences at India Today Conclave 2019 to tread their future paths with a lot of caution and unlearn what they follow in their lifestyle, food habits, survival techniques and interaction. Looking forward to talking about climate change in New …

Riding the wave: how climate change is impacting the Bay of Bengal region
6 years, 4 months ago

Riding the wave: how climate change is impacting the Bay of Bengal region

The Hindu  

T he Northeast monsoon had just set in, and the timing couldn’t have been better. While over 80% of the world’s top cities developed along coastlines and waterways, over the next few years, countries like India and China will be the worst affected by climate change extremities. It’s no doubt that our coasts are the worst affected, but climate change …

‘All-weather ally’: China eyeing businesses and land in Pakistan, claims report
8 years, 1 month ago

‘All-weather ally’: China eyeing businesses and land in Pakistan, claims report

India TV News  

China’s relationship with its “all-weather ally” Pakistan seems to be getting deeper as several companies from Beijing are in talks to acquire more businesses and land in Pakistan after sealing two major deals in recent months. A Reuters report cites a dozen executives from some of Pakistan’s biggest firms claiming that Chinese companies were looking mainly at the cement, steel, …

Pakistan to be hardest hit by climate change: Daily
11 years, 11 months ago

Pakistan to be hardest hit by climate change: Daily

India TV News  

Islamabad, April 9: Pakistan will be amongst the countries hardest hit by climate change, said a leading daily, warning that a disaster of enormous proportions is silently evolving in the mountains up north. "The peaks are home to some 15,000 glaciers which, as a result of rising temperatures, are retreating at an alarming rate of almost 40 to 60 metres …

Pakistan's Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above
14 years, 7 months ago

Pakistan's Climate Change Floods, Seen From Above

Wired  

A series of satellite photographs conveys the epic scale of the floods sweeping through Pakistan, leaving millions homeless and the world aghast at an extreme weather disaster that experts consider the new normal. As University of Michigan atmospheric scientist Ricky Rood wrote on the Weather Underground blog, "What is happening in Pakistan cannot be described in a single word – …

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