Climate Change and its Impacts on Sustainable Development Goals : A Case Study of 2022 Floods in Pakistan

Abstract

Climate Change is the most disregarded yet most crucial subject of the 21st century. First world industrialized countries do not realize the impact climate change has on the third world countries like Pakistan. The greenhouse gases are depleting the ozone layer at a rapid pace, while the debate on whether global warming is a real issue or not is still undergoing. The impacts of climate change have wreaked havoc on Pakistan in the year 2022, devastating most of the rural area of Sindh Province, KPK, Punjab and Baluchistan. This thesis analyzes and sheds light on the devastation caused by the 2022 flooding on Pakistan as an overarching climate disaster on Human Sustainable Development thus creating concern in international relations. Furthermore, solutions and recommendations for building a resilient socio-economic infrastructure ensuring the Sustainable Human Development have also been provided in this paper. The sources used to conduct research included secondary sources that is literature available at hand. The literature ranged from books, to journal articles and newspaper articles as well. The theory that has been taken for this thesis is the “Green Theory” by Rachel Carson. This theory lays emphasis on and addresses the human environment relationship. It also attempts to strike a balance between the preservation and protection of the natural world and the satisfaction of human requirements. The year 2022 was a catastrophic year for Pakistan in terms of climate impacts. There was considerable rainfall, cataclysmic flooding, and ghastly landslides throughout the monsoon period. As a result, millions of individuals were impacted from these natural disasters. People lost their homes and livelihood and the economy of Pakistan suffered a loss in the form of billions of dollars. This is an evidence to the first world countries as to how much of a reality is climate change.