In this episode of "2022 Raw and Real", we bring you CGTN's top newsmakers and newsworthy moments of the year. In Pakistan, the deadly impact of climate change triggered heavier than usual rainfall leading to devastating floods that lasted from June to October. Over 1,700 people...
FLOODSINVESTORSCOMMONSGOVERNMENT policy on climate changeThis commentary offers a glimpse into the complex landscape of climate‐induced migration in rural Pakistan. By shedding light on the interplay between gradual ecological shifts and rapid climate shocks, it exposes the misalignment between climate ...
We have seen and experienced it before - not at this massive level, but it has been a norm in the country. It’s not the first time Pakistan has been experiencing floods during the Monsoon season. So yes, climate change is a reality, but the major reasons for this level of...
"The climate change-triggered disaster has revoked the true spirit of national unity among the people of Pakistan and we are making our best efforts to support the victims in the hour of need," Muhammad Soban, a 17-year-old student loading relief goods collected from friends and family in ...
more than 1,150 peoplesince mid-June. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Gutteres said Pakistan's flooding, caused by weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains and compounded by glacial meltwater running down from the mountains, were a signal to the world to step up action against climate change. ...
Sky's Laura Bundock examines why Pakistan is so susceptible to climate change Floods a 'grim reminder of human cost of inaction' Climate finance is an outstanding issue from the COP26 climate talks that the UK hosted last year, though the summit did make some progress. ...
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- As the agriculture sector of Pakistan remained one of the biggest contributors to the national economy, the incumbent government has been making all-out efforts to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change on the sector to ensure food security, increase export...
The 2010 floods in northern Pakistan are still a fresh and painful memory for Inam Torwali, a Torwali-Kohistani lexicographer. One of theworst humanitarian disasters in Pakistan’s history, the floods led to large-scale migration from the northern mountainous regions of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber...
In Australia, we have beensubjected to a barrage of ill-informed exaggerationsabout ourcountry’s traditional droughts, floods, and fires. Each weather event of modern life is attributed by the media to carbon dioxide-induced Climate Change. ...
Mm-hmm, except that 2022 is also the year of climate change: drought in China and Europe, floods in Pakistan, both in the Horn of Africa, unfolding in a context of several other aspects of serious environmental deterioration, asmy last blog postalso set out. ...