Islamabad: Pakistan has urged the international community to ensure rapid, grant-based and predictable financing for climate-vulnerable developing countries, warning that repeated extreme weather events were deepening debt distress and slowing development progress in nations least responsible for global emissions.
The call was made at a high-level side event, titled “Operationalizing Loss and Damage: Financing Resilience and Recovery in Vulnerable Countries,” organized jointly by Pakistan’s Climate Change & Environmental Coordination Ministry and UNICEF at the Pakistan Pavilion on the sidelines of the UN climate summit (COP30) in Belém, Brazil.
Pakistan ranks among nations most vulnerable to climate change and has seen erratic changes in its weather patterns that have led to frequent heatwaves, untimely rains, storms, cyclones, floods and droughts in recent years. In 2022, monsoon floods killed over 1,700 people, displaced another 33 million and caused over $30 billion losses, while another 1,037 people were killed in floods this year.
In her keynote address at the COP30 event, Pakistan’s Climate Change Secretary Aisha Humera Moriani said Pakistan was investing heavily in strengthening national climate resilience, recalling how the devastating floods in 2022 and 2025 displaced millions, destroyed large-scale infrastructure and caused multi-billion-dollar economic losses.
