In Pakistan, floods have covered a third of the country and killed nearly 1,600 people since June 2022. While many leaders have been speaking on climate change since Tuesday on the podium at the United Nations General Assembly, with more or less out of conviction, the intervention of Pakistan’s Prime Minister has been eagerly awaited: Shehbaz Sharif painfully described his devastated country and pointed to the responsibility of the polluting countries.
The “devastating” floods that have hit Pakistan this summer are just a prelude to the rest of the planet falling victim to climate change, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif warned on the United Nations platform on Friday, September 23 . My heart and my mind could not leave my country. I still feel like visiting one of the areas affected by the floods. For forty days and forty nights a biblical deluge fell upon us. In this ground zero of climate change, millions of climate refugees are still looking for a small, sheltered, dry piece of land to pitch their tents and mourn their dead, their future, their livelihoods. »
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