Pakistan urged to shift climate finance to local level as weather risks intensify

KARACHI: Pakistan needs to move climate finance closer to local governments to protect communities from increasingly severe weather shocks, a senior government adviser said on Saturday, as policymakers warned that centralized approaches were failing to reach those most exposed. Pakistan has been facing increasingly erratic weather patterns, including frequent heatwaves, unprecedented rains, storms, cyclones, floods and droughts.

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