As one-third of Pakistan’s territory is under water, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has stated that he will urge “massive support” for Pakistan during his impending visit to the nation.
The UN chief told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York before he was heading towards the Security Council chamber for a meeting on the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine: “Tomorrow (Wednesday), I will be flying to Pakistan to express my deep solidarity with the Pakistani people and to appeal for the massive support of the international community to the Pakistanis, in this hour of need after the devastating floods that we are witnessing.
While “there is a lot of emphasis on the battle in Ukraine,” the senior UN official emphasised the necessity of paying attention to the harm caused by climate change, according to the Xinhua news agency.
People often overlook the fact that we are engaged in a war with nature, and that nature is responding by destroying our world at an accelerated rate due to climate change.
“Pakistan, Chad, and the Horn of Africa, where starvation is being brought on by drought. All of these things pose a serious threat to each and every one of us, he said.
“Today it is Pakistan. Tomorrow it can be anywhere else,” he added. Dealing with climate change, which is the defining issue of our time, with the status quo strategy would be suicide, according to Guterres.
