Video Length 25 minutes 35 seconds
A minimum of 1,100 folks have died in two months of torrential monsoon rains.
Though monsoon rains are an annual incidence in Pakistan, this 12 months’s deluge has triggered essentially the most damaging floods in most individuals’s reminiscences.
Some provinces have acquired greater than 5 instances the common rainfall since June. The local weather change minister has known as it a “climate-induced humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions”.
Greater than 1,100 folks have died and a whole lot of 1000’s are homeless.
Can Pakistan deal with the ensuing humanitarian disaster? And the way a lot is local weather change in charge?
Presenter: Rob Matheson
Company:
Dawar Butt – atmosphere coverage analyst
Sara Hayat – lawyer specialising in local weather change coverage
Peter Ophoff – head of Worldwide Federation of Pink Cross and Pink Crescent Societies in Pakistan