The country’s climate change minister criticized the “crisis of injustice” facing the country and the “lopsided allocation” of funding as more damage, destruction, and loss of life are caused by recent flash flooding and heavy rains.
Since the start of the monsoon season, at least 32 people have died in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, according to officials in Pakistan.
At least 32 people were also killed last month in a nation that has reported severe weather events in the spring, including strong hailstorms.
According to data from 2022, Pakistan was at the top of the list of the most affected nations according to the Climate Rate Index report from 2025. Then, due to extensive flooding, 33 million people were affected, including more than 1,700, and suffered $ 14. 8 billion in damages as well as $ 15.2 billion in economic losses.
More than 600 people died as a result of a heatwave and thousands of more floods were affected by the heatwave last year.
I don’t see this as a climate crisis. According to Pakistan’s climate change minister, Musadiq Malik, “I view this as a crisis of justice and this lopsided allocation that we are discussing.” I don’t see this disparate allocation of green funding as a funding gap. It reflects a moral gap, in my opinion.
funding issue
A former head of the nation’s central bank earlier this year claimed that Pakistan needed to invest $40 to $50 billion annually until 2050 to address its looming climate change challenges despite having a share of the world’s CO2 emissions of about 50%.
Around $10 billion in pledges from multilateral financial institutions and nations were reported in January 2023. Pakistan received $2.8 billion from international creditors as a result of those pledges the following year.
Pakistan will receive $1.3 billion under a new, 28-month loan program, according to the International Monetary Fund earlier this year. Given the predicament Pakistan is currently in, Malik claimed that those pledges and loans were insufficient.
The United States of America and China contribute to 44% of global carbon emissions. People are aware of the fact that almost 70% of the world’s top 10 nations account for almost 70% of the carbon burden. However, the same 10 countries receive 85 percent of the world’s green funding, while the rest of the world, which includes some 180-plus nations, receives 10 to 15 percent.
Through these unpredictable climate changes, floods, and agricultural devastation, we are paying for it.
The climate change ministry and the Italian research institute EvK2CNR conducted a study last year that found that Pakistan has more than 13 000 glaciers.
However, those glaciers are also being forced to melt by the temperature increase, increasing the risk of flooding, property loss, property loss, and water shortages.
Flooding caused by glacier melt [in Sindh province] wiped out thousands of years of civilization, in addition to land and life. Everything washed away, including the mosques, temples, schools, hospitals, historic structures, and monuments.
Add to that the report noted that infant mortality is high, as well as the lack of access to safe drinking water, access to hospitals and clinics, and access to education.
In a report released last month, Amnesty International claimed that “Pakistan’s healthcare and disaster response systems are failing to serve the needs of the elderly and children who are most vulnerable to death and disease as a result of extreme weather events related to climate change.”
According to Laura Mills, a researcher with Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Programme, “children and older people in Pakistan are suffering on the front lines of the climate crisis because they are exposed to extreme heat or floods that cause disproportionately high rates of death and disease.”
