“I simply have no words to describe what I saw today,” lamented Antonio Guterres on Saturday, in a country bruised by heavy monsoon rains.
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“I simply have no words to describe what I saw today.” On a visit to Pakistan, devastated by extraordinary floods, the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, declared on Saturday September 10 in Karachi that he had no “never seen climate carnage of this magnitude”.
“Pakistan and other developing countries are paying a horrific price for the intransigence of big emitters [de gaz à effet de serre]who continue to bet on fossil fuels”he had lamented, at the start of the day, before going to flooded regions of the South.
“From Islamabad, I call globally: Stop this madness. Invest in renewable energy now. End the war on nature”, he asserted. Nearly 1,400 people have died since June in the floods, which have covered a third of Pakistan, in an area the size of the UK, destroying homes, businesses, roads, bridges and agricultural crops.
Pakistan is responsible for less than 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions (for 3% of the world’s population), but it is in 8th position of the countries most threatened by extreme weather phenomena, according to a study by the Germanwatch NGO.