Climate Change and its Effects on Pakistan

Abstract

To comprehend the challenges and impacts posed by climate change in Pakistan, this paper tries to investigate socioeconomic, environmental, and ecological factors. The paper also aims to address the concerns based on urgency by exploring numerous impacts caused by the growing changes in climate. The repercussions of global warming are severe that affect everyone including Pakistan. For an effective adaptation and mitigation mechanism, understanding the ramifications of climate change on Pakistan is essential. To investigate and collect relevant data on climate change in Pakistan, this research paper looks at the existing academic literature, government policies, international reports, and scientific statistics. The paper’s findings and results have identified Pakistan as an extremely vulnerable country in terms of climate change. The rising temperature, changing patterns of precipitation, rapid melting of glaciers, rising level of the sea, heat waves, devastating floods and their impacts on agriculture, rapid contamination and scarcity of water, and growing health issues are some glimpses of climate change in Pakistan. The report emphasizes the necessity of a sustainable mechanism in Pakistan that should include adaptation and mitigation initiatives on an urgent basis.