CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS IMPACT ON PAKISTAN, Facts, Recommendations || Yasir Hassan Blogs

To make it easy and more understandable I divided the topic into three parts.

1st part that discusses climate change

 2nd part discusses about Pakistan

 3rd part discusses the impact of climate change on Pakistan.

Let’s discuss them one by one.

Climate change

Do you know why climate change occurs? Is it a natural process or due to human activities? Climate changes are due to long-term shifts in temperature and weather patterns this change/ shift can be natural or due to human activities after 1800 due to human Environment unfriendly activities contributing a lot towards climate change so humans are contributing more than nature itself. How we are contributing to climate change or in other words playing a negative role. let me tell you there are many activities in our daily life which can be at a minor level or at a major level which is directly or indirectly contributing to climate change some of the examples are as below,

Emission of carbon dioxide and methane these gases are released by cars, burning fuels, and coals which we use in our daily life for heating purposes or production of goods, or any other reason.

Deforestation is also one of the reasons for climate change

Does climate change affect only one country?

The answer is no climate change is a global issue it affects any country whether the country is developed or developing. Whether the country has fewer greenhouse gases emission or its greenhouses emission are at maximum level. Climate change can affect any country so it is not the responsibility of any single country to control climate change it is the responsibility 

of every country to take measures to control climate change. And the maximum responsibility lies on the shoulders of developed countries to help the developing countries which are affected by climate change. So now let’s talk about

Pakistan

Pakistan is located in south Asia and if we discuss its neighboring countries. Pakistan shares international borders with China, India, Afghanistan, and Iran. China is located in the northeast. India is in the east and southeast, Iran is in the west and Afghanistan is in North West. It is very important to discuss the neighboring countries if you want to understand the science behind climate change. let's see some figures (the following figures are taken from World Data Bank)

Pakistan is the 5th largest country by land 

Population of 225,199,929 . 

Youth under 30 ages are 63% 

the poverty rate in Pakistan is 37.9%. 

population growth rate (annual )is 1.91%.

the unemployment rate is expected to reach 12% by the end of 2022. 

Co2 emission is 0.9%, 

forest area 4.8%, 

The GDP of Pakistan is 346.34 billion dollars.

Life expectancy 67 year

Human capital index (scale 0-1) is 0.4

GDP per capita is ,1537.9$

GDP Growth (annual ) is 6.0%

Access to electricity is 75.4%

Impact of climate change on Pakistan

In recent years Pakistan is facing a huge challenge of climate change. In 2010 due to floods, droughts, and other natural calamities almost 20 million people lost their houses. And same effects were experienced in the 2012 flood. Pakistan needs serious attention in this regard because due to its geographic location of Pakistan the intensity of climate change become doubled as compared to other countries. In fact, Pakistan is one of the countries whose percentage of greenhouses emission is less than 1 % but the climate change impacts are huge. Some facts are as below.

Due to the presence of several glaciers in Pakistan which are around 7000 in the coming years, these glaciers will melt unexpectedly way which will cause high flooding.

Due to unexpected temperature changes, it is predicted that the availability of clean water will decrease in the coming years, and people will lose access to clean drinking water. And human life will be at risk

As Pakistan's economy is highly dependent on agriculture so due to climate change the crops are at high risk which directly affects the lives of poor people increasing the poverty rate, out-of-school children, and urbanization.

The areas near the Arabian Sea in the south of Pakistan will be at high risk because of increases in the number of floods.

As Pakistan's economy is highly dependent on agriculture and due to climate change Pakistan's agriculture sector is facing a big challenge. According to global reports Pakistan is placed 12th among the countries which are facing a big challenge and are a serious threat due to the unexpected weather changes.

Recommendations

Some recommendations to minimize the climate change effect

Public awareness

To minimize the effects of climate change it is important to create awareness among the people about the causes and effects of climate change

Effective policies 

Government should make effective policies how to minimize the climate change impact in Pakistan and must implement those policies as soon as possible.

Minimize Greenhouse gases emission 

As the percentage of the greenhouse gases, the emission is less than 1 % but we need to bring it to 0% by stopping all those activities which cause the emission of these toxic gases

Climate repressions

 Climate repression is very important if we want to control and minimize the effect of climate change

 Efficiency of Disaster management institutions 

It is used less if any institution exists but fails to achieve its objectives all the institutions which are working for the management of disaster must work effectively with transparency so that the citizens can trust the decisions made by the respective institutions.

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