How Pakistan’s Flood Crisis Bends Climate Talks Towards Reparations
Deadly flooding has left a widening public-health crisis that will draw attention to wealthy nations’ responsibility for climate change at COP27.
A woman carries a pot to fill with drinking water in Pakistan’s hard-hit Sindh province on Sept. 10, 2022.
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This summer’s destructive floods have left 21 million Pakistanis in desperate need of help weeks after flooding peaked, and the United Nations is still scrambling for resources to deliver life-critical aid to even half that number. As acting head of the UN humanitarian agency’s work in Pakistan, Ruth Mukwana has spent recent days traveling through washed-out provinces of Sindh and Balochistan. The highways are filled with children and mostly women living in makeshift tents without access to clean water, appropriate nutrition or sanitation.