Pakistan may become extremely hot by end of the century: UN report

ISLAMABAD, Nov 06 (NNI): According to the new Human Climate Horizons platform, Pakistan’s average annual temperature will increase to 22.4 degrees Celsius within the next decade and a half, and the temperature would cross the 26oC threshold by the end of the century.
The new data shows the need to act quickly, not only to mitigate climate change but also to adapt to its consequences. For instance, in Faisalabad, Pakistan, even with moderate mitigation, additional deaths due to climate change would average 36 per 100,000 people each year between 2020-2039.
Without substantially expanding adaptation efforts, Faisalabad could expect annual climate change-related death rates to nearly double, reaching 67 deaths per 100,000 by midcentury. An increment almost as deadly as strokes, currently Pakistan’s third leading cause of death.
As we face the punishing impacts of global climate change it can be easy to wonder whether efforts to reduce emissions by individual countries, states, or cities really make a difference. United Nations Development Programme and the Climate Impact Lab. According to the new Human Climate Horizons platform launched, by the United Nations Development Programme and the Climate Impact Lab, without concerted and urgent action, climate change will exacerbate inequalities and widen gaps in human development.
Designed to empower people and decision-makers everywhere, it shows what climate change could mean for people’s lives through changes in mortality, the ability to earn a living, and energy use.
For example, in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, under a scenario of very high emissions, the additional deaths by 2100 due to climate change (132 in every 100,000 people per year) would be nearly twice Bangladesh’s current annual death rate from all cancers, and 10 times its annual road traffic fatalities. NNI