In many regions of the Global South, climate change has no book to be put in as an episode. It’s the dry ground right outside your door, the monsoon that is off schedule and never comes fully, the heated room that feels like an oven because there’s no fan or air conditioning, the flood that […]
Author: Sahar Manzoor
When Climate Change is Lived, Not Debated: Public Perception in Pakistan
In Pakistan, climate change is not headlined or a culture war talking point. It is the feel of dust in the throat on a May heat waves, the scent of stagnant floodwater in the village school transformed into a refuge and the silence of panic when the tap finally runs dry in the third week […]
Not Just a Climate Crisis: Why Pakistan Has a Public Health Emergency
Climate change is no longer an off thing or simply a matter of the shifting pattern of weather in the context of Pakistan neither is it about melting glaciers nor polar bears a long way away but it is about hospital beds, overheated bodies, contaminated water, epidemic outbreak and anxious families asking themselves whether the […]
Loss, Damage, and Delayed Justice : Can COP30 Change Pakistan’s Climate Future?
Belém’s COP30 which was held in Brazil this time, felt like standing in two different worlds at once: inside the pleasant air-conditioned arena where screens glowed with the promise of trillions in climate finance; outside, delegates from disaster-hit countries like Pakistan kept checking their phones for fresh updates from home about destruction and casualties. You […]
Compound Disasters in Pakistan
Extreme Weather, Social Vulnerability, and State Capacity The floods of 2025 are Pakistan’s deadliest climate disaster in recent history due to monsoon rains.It is produced by unprecedented rainfall and accelerated glacial melt coupled with governance failures into a national emergency. The event revealed, on the one hand, how monsoon dynamics have evolved in a warming […]
When the Storms End, the Struggle Begins
The Emotional Burden of Climate Change on Women in Pakistan “Women are the first to suffer from climate change, and often the last to be heard.” UN Women Climate change is a problem of the present. In many parts of the world, it is an escalating problem. Rural communities and agricultural societies that depend upon […]