Finance

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 […]

Climate Diplomacy

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 […]