On Tuesday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called on industrialized nations to help developing nations escape financial traps, which he mostly attributed to natural calamities brought on by climate change.
Speaking at the SDG Moment 2024 Meeting on the fringes of the 79th United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Prime Minister stressed that even though Pakistan accounts for a small portion of the world’s carbon emissions, the floods of 2022 in the country, which were caused by climate change, caused unprecedented damage.
“Climate change caused the biggest flooding we have ever experienced in 2022, and it was not our fault. We are not even close to offsetting our pitiful portion of carbon emissions,” he underlined, stressing the need for wealthy, developed nations—who produce the majority of emissions—to assume accountability and aid developing countries.
