Climate Change: Leaving Pakistan out to dry

Pakistan continues to be submerged after months of flooding and assist is sluggish to come back.

Kids stand as their household takes refuge alongside a broken street amid a flood, following rains and floods in the course of the monsoon season in Bajara village, on the banks of Manchar lake, in Sehwan, Pakistan September 6, 2022 [Akhtar Soomro/Reuters]

Months of torrential downpours and flooding have hounded Pakistan, and far of the blame is falling on local weather change. However Pakistan’s contribution to greenhouse gasses is lower than 1 %. So how is the world coming to Pakistan’s assist to make up for the harm achieved?

On this episode:

• Zein Basravi (@virtualzein), worldwide correspondent, Al Jazeera English
• Afia Salam (@afiasalam), freelance journalist on surroundings, local weather change, gender points and media ethics

Episode credit:

This episode was produced by Amy Walters with Chloe Ok Li, Ruby Zaman, Alexandra Locke, Negin Owliaei, Ashish Malhotra and Halla Mohieddeen. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our engagement producers are Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.