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Pakistan is in dire straits: over 33 million people (15 percent of the population) have been impacted and internally displaced, close to 1,200 are dead, almost one million houses have been washed away (Photo: Screengrab/BBC)

Flooded Pakistan needs climate reparations, not EU charity

When one-third of your country is under water there is a lot of blame to go around. Politicians blame each other, citizens rightly blame inadequate infrastructure and lack of emergency services and measures, the international community blames it on corruption and experts and scientists rightly say it is climate change.

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Meera Ghani is a scientist and a social justice organiser who has worked on climate and energy policy in the EU and Pakistan for the last 20 years. She was a negotiator with the Pakistan delegation at the UNFCCC from 2008 to 2013 with a special focus on climate debt. A fundraiser set up by the author can be found here.

Pakistan is in dire straits: over 33 million people (15 percent of the population) have been impacted and internally displaced, close to 1,200 are dead, almost one million houses have been washed away (Photo: Screengrab/BBC)

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Author Bio

Meera Ghani is a scientist and a social justice organiser who has worked on climate and energy policy in the EU and Pakistan for the last 20 years. She was a negotiator with the Pakistan delegation at the UNFCCC from 2008 to 2013 with a special focus on climate debt. A fundraiser set up by the author can be found here.

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