Pakistan has been battered by back-to-back climate catastrophes in recent years, and is struggling to find the funding it needs to recover from unprecedented flooding. COP27
KARACHI, Pakistan – Pakistan’s climate change minister, Sherry Rehman, is heading to Egypt for the UN COP27 climate summit with one goal: finally getting the world to commit to helping countries like hers deal with the growing “loss and damage” caused by global warming.
Nine years ago, UN climate negotiators agreed to set up a formal mechanism to tackle loss and damage – but, apart from a donor-backed effort to boost insurance against weather disasters in developing countries, little has happened since. Pakistan is a “climate victim” that has grabbed the world’s attention and empathy – and is also currently chairing the G77 and China, an alliance of developing countries that is a key player at the COP summits, noted Malik Amin Aslam, an environmentalist and former Pakistan climate change minister.
In a video message posted in the run-up to COP27, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the climate conference a critical “litmus test” for rebuilding trust between developed and developing countries, and said he hoped it would be able to secure meaningful outcomes around loss and damage. While a national recovery plan is yet to be announced, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said the government is first focusing on getting farmers back on their feet.
In contrast, in response to the Pakistan floods, the United Nations launched an appeal to raise $160 million, which was later increased to $816 million to provide healthcare, food, shelter, and clean drinking water to 9.5 million people.
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