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Climate Change in Pakistan: Govt Efforts to Reduce the Climat Change Threats
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The blooming climate change crisis is one of the biggest challenges facing the world Article history:
today.Climate change affects human life as well as the economy,with everyone from Received 25 September 2021
Received in revised form 18 October 2021
multinational and national organizations and individuals having to take action to meet the Accepted 01 November 2021
oncoming threat.population growth,floods,reduced agricultural productivity,increasing
urbanisation, increased variability of water availability,sea water incursion,increased costal Keywords: climate change,
erosion,rising pressure on resources and a continuously growing global economy are making pakistan government,
this task both more difficult and more essential.This current study contributes to focusing on Global warming, threats.
the reality of climate change in pakistan,and government contributions or efforts to face the
global climate threats.
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Introduction:
Climate change has potentially far-reaching consequences that impact not only the economy but
also many other enviromental and social aspects of life. Climate Change is generally accept as the
specifically challenge of our age surface humankind with extreme global environmental, economically
and security connections. Pakistan has faced extreme weather events such as catastrophic
floods,droughts,and cyclones in recent years that have killed and displaced thousands,destroyed
livelihoods and damaged infrastucture.The super flood of 2010 alone, for example, killed 1,600 people,
overflow an 38,600 square kilometers area.Similarly, the Karachi heat wave in June 2015 show to the
death of more than 1,200 people.
Climate change raises the prospect that these and other natural hazards will increase in frequencu
and severity in the oncoming decades- According to German Watch;That Pakistan is one of the top 10
countries who are most vuluerable to thw effects of climate change.Global Climate Risk Index shows
annual report for 2020, Pakistan has lost 0.53 percent per unit GDP, suffered economic deprivation US$
3792.52 million and observe 152 weather facts from 1999 to 2018. Accordiing to Asian Development
Bank that the socioeconomic costs of environmental degradation are considerable with climate
adaptation needs ranging between $7 billion and $14 billion per year. The government being aware of
the situation is taking consider at policy, administration and operational levels to reduce the distructive
effects of climate change in the Pakistan.
Terminlogy of Climate Change:
Pakistan is currently facing one of the biggest threats it has ever faced,which could not only result
in natural disasters and unlimited suffering for its natives to advanced in the years .but also compromise
our future economic growth.This threat is called "Climate Change".The process of "Climate Change"-
the rising global temperatures,weather conditions across the earth's lands and oceans.
Climate change represents long-term shift on a large scale in the average temperatures and global
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