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Climate Change and Migration
Source: Relief Web
Date: 27 May 2024
In the disaster-prone Asia-Pacific region, particularly in South Asia, the frequency and intensity of environmental hazards, exacerbated by climate change, pose significant risks. Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, with floods being the primary driver, recorded the highest number of disaster displacements in 2022.
Asia-Â Pakistan’s School Children will be impacted by Extreme weather conditions
Source: Save the Children
Date: 23 May 2024
More than half of Pakistan’s school age children – about 26 million – will be locked out of classrooms for a week due to an ongoing heat wave, the latest in a string of countries to shut down education due to climate extremes, Save the Children said.
Bhutan calls for unified mountain voice to address effects of climate change
Source: Kuensel
Date: 27 May 2024.
At the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), Bhutan, Nepal, Kyrgyzstan, and other mountainous countries called for a ‘Mountain agenda’ which was supported by the Parties.
The Constitution mandates maintaining 60 percent forest coverage for all times to ensure a sustainable ecosystem, with a current forest coverage of 69.71 percent.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that climate-related hazards, such as flash floods and landslides, have contributed to an increase in disasters affecting a growing number of people in mountain regions and areas further downstream.
