Pakistan is facing climate change’s worst consequences partly thanks to the developed world, its finance minister said, as the nation battles severe floods.
are a"reminder to wealthy countries to remedy unfettered climate change."
Floods in Pakistan in 2010 — the last time extreme floods hit Pakistan — and this year were caused by the same combination of heavily meandering jet streams, tropical oceans being locked in a certain phase, and elevated temperatures in the Arabian Sea, Harrington told CNBC on Monday. "We also know that the same storm systems would produce less rain if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were fixed at pre-industrial levels."
The role that climate change has played in Pakistan's latest crisis is not, however, straightforward, according to some analysts.a body of the United Nations, said the extent to which"human influence" — through factors such as emissions — has contributed to weather changes globally has increased since its last assessment in 2014.
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