In 2010, Pakistan was ravaged by terrible floods, qualified by the UN of more serious humanitarian disaster since the organization of the organization in 1945. That year, the people displaced by climatic disasters reached the number From 38 million, a record that was widely explained by the massive movements caused by the floods in Pakistan.
Twelve years later, the country is now ravaged by Dantesque floods, which submerged a third of the country’s area, the equivalent of half of mainland France. These floods, linked to exceptionally abundant monsoon rains and to the melting of glaciers of the Himalayas, followed an exceptional heat wave, during which temperatures in the country had regularly exceeded 50 ° C. In March 2021, Pakistan announced the launch of a national adaptation plan, to improve the country’s resilience to the impacts of climate change. But what can adaptation in the face of floods that affect tens of millions of people?
provide financial compensation
In the second part of its latest report, published on February 28, the intergovernmental group of experts on the evolution of the climate warned that in several places of the globe The limits of the adaptation risked being crossed: in Other terms, which it would become impossible to adapt, and that we would have any choice than to take stock of loss and material damage. It is this reality that bases a segment of the climatic negotiations addressed a little less than ten years ago: “losses and prejudices” (Loss and Damage), segment of the United Nations Framework Convention on the Climate Change which hears Cantify these losses and provide financial compensation to affected countries.
If industrialized countries have recently become aware, thanks to extreme events, of the need to develop for themselves adaptation policies, elsewhere in the world, it is the question of habitability that is posed by climate change. In 2021, 24 million people were moved by climatic events, a figure to which must be added those which are moved by more progressive impacts of climate change, such as rise in water or soil degradation. There is no doubt that the sad record of 2010 will be broken this year, again because of the situation in Pakistan.
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