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Climate change poses serious threats to Pakistan. Pakistan has been ranked the 8th most vulnerable country to climate change. While Pakistan only contributes 0.47% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it suffers from extreme weather events like floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels that could submerge parts of Karachi in the next 35-45 years. The government of Pakistan has ratified the Paris Climate Agreement and aims to mitigate climate change impacts through initiatives like expanding forests and improving water management, energy efficiency, and use of renewable resources. However, long-term measures are still needed across government and community levels to adapt to climate change risks.

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Climate Change and Global Warming Full Essay For Css

Climate change poses serious threats to Pakistan. Pakistan has been ranked the 8th most vulnerable country to climate change. While Pakistan only contributes 0.47% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it suffers from extreme weather events like floods, droughts, heat waves and rising sea levels that could submerge parts of Karachi in the next 35-45 years. The government of Pakistan has ratified the Paris Climate Agreement and aims to mitigate climate change impacts through initiatives like expanding forests and improving water management, energy efficiency, and use of renewable resources. However, long-term measures are still needed across government and community levels to adapt to climate change risks.

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Climate is statistics of weather over a long period of time. It is
measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature,
humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind precipitation, atmospheric
particle count and other metrological variables in a given region over
a long period of time. Climate change is a serious global threat and
Pakistan has been ranked 8th on the list of countries most vulnerable
to climate change by the German watch Global Climate Risk Index.
In a recent global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions study from 2011-
2015, Pakistan has been ranked 137th and has contributed only 0.47
per cent of global GHG emissions, but owing to its climatic conditions
it is consistently bracketed with countries that have drastic climate
change effects. Pakistan is considered among countries that suffer
extreme weather conditions. Pakistan was one of the five nations
that were badly affected by the climate change in 2014.
The Pakistan Economic Survey has reported that during 2010-2012
floods more than 3,000 people were killed and they also resulted in
the loss of $16 billion. Thousands of people lost their lives due to
Karachi heat wave, Chitral floods and drought in Thar in 2015.
Furthermore, with rise in temperature and increase in sea levels, the
National Institute of Oceanography has warned that there is danger
that Karachi could drown in next 35-45 years due to climate change.
Some of the other adverse effects of climate change in Pakistan
include extreme temperatures, seasonal droughts, heavy rains,
monsoonal storms/cyclones, devastating floods, unusual fogs,
melting of glaciers, glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs), landslides
and avalanches in the mountainous areas and threatening inflows
into Indus River System (IRS). The rainfalls would decline during
winters and heavy rainfalls would occur during summers. The winter
season would shrink and summer season would be long and extreme.
The government of Pakistan has recently ratified the Paris Climate
Change Agreement and approved the Intended Nationally
Determined Contributions (INDCs) and Pakistan Climate Change Bill
2016.Pakistan is already among more than 190 countries that have
signed the Paris Climate Agreement and aims to mitigate the effects
of climate change at domestic and global level. The Pakistan Climate
Change Council would also be established to implement Kyoto
protocol and Paris agreement. The new initiatives of Green Pakistan
and Billion Trees Tsunami have been taken to expand the forests.
Government of Pakistan should take long-term measures to mitigate
the climate effects such as water management, improved energy
consumption and conservation, better use of renewable resources,
controlling deforestation, building of dams and reservoirs,
discouraging use of fossils, forecasting and managing extreme
weather events, early warning and emergency plans for disaster
prone areas etc. Along these government climate change initiatives,
Pakistan needs to work at domestic and community level to create
climate change awareness.

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