Pakistan’s Call for Climate Reparations
<p>Torrential monsoon rains have triggered Pakistan’s worst floods this century. So far, at least 1,300 people have been killed and a third of the country is under flood waters. Entire villages have been washed away and an estimated three million children are in need of humanitarian assistance...
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Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog GmbH
2022-09-01
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| Online Access: | https://verfassungsblog.de/pakistans-call-for-climate-reparations/ |
| Summary: | <p>Torrential monsoon rains have triggered Pakistan’s worst floods this century. So far, at least 1,300 people have been killed and a third of the country is under flood waters. Entire villages have been washed away and an estimated three million children are in need of humanitarian assistance. Against this backdrop, Pakistan’s minister for climate change has called for rich nations to pay reparations to developing States suffering climate loss and damage. In this blog post, I will put the claims for climate reparations in an international law context.</p>
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| ISSN: | 2366-7044 |