By Saleem Shaikh Pakistan’s vulnerability to climate change is being made worse by poor governance and the degradation of its natural resources, posing risk to the food security, health and livelihoods of its poorest citizens, climate change experts claim. “Poverty is a crucial factor in assessing vulnerability ... to climate change and extreme events,” said Adil Najam, dean of Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, during a recent meeting on implications for Pakistan of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. He described Pakistan as being highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. That is in part because “not only forests but also land and water resources are deg...
October 5, 2014 at 10:56 am | News Desk