Revista Sextante

Climate Change Challenges in Pakistan: Policy Response and Future Repercussions in the Climate Changing Scenario

Muhammad Ijaz Awan

PhD Scholar, International Relations, Muslim Youth University, Islamabad

Dr. Mujahid Hussain

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Muslim Youth University Islamabad

Keywords: Climate Change, Disaster management, Environmental attitude, Adaptation, Mitigation, Carbon Budget, Carbon Credit, Climate Finance, Global Warming, NDCs, Paris Agreement, UNFCCC, NEP Scale, Value Belief Norm (VBN) Theory, Ministry of Climate Change, Climate Change Act of Pakistan, Climate Change Policy

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Abstract

Climate Change term has been extensively used in the research publications for the last few decades which has been relatively had less concern at the global level. There are various factors which have made climate change phenomenon most researched aspect in the global research domains including different knowledge fields. The Climate Change as global phenomenon has been frequently investigated by climatologists, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, economists, global organizations including UNO, regional forums to study the level of changes occurred to the climate, to determine the root causes responsible in bringing the changes in climate and major threats to the human life at global level through various catastrophes eminent to be developed due to climate change phenomenon. Although Pakistan has not played any major role in de-stabilizing the global climate change however she is placed at the highest risk level countries due to climate change. Pakistan has suffered at massive scale in heavy flooding in 2010 and in subsequent years as well, along with other climate change-based calamities like droughts in Baluchistan and Sindh, heat waves and excessive temperature rise in summer, un-usual rainfall patterns which has affected the crops yields and cultivation patterns in Pakistan. There are various policies adopted by the government of Pakistan to develop the adaptation and mitigation strategies to reduce the effects of climate change in Pakistan. Tis research is n effort to identify the climate change challenges to Pakistan and investigate the adaptation and mitigation efforts to reduce the implications of climate change in Pakistan.