Pakistan

It takes only 24 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Pakistani will produce over the course of the entire year.  Therefore, January 24th (24 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Pakistan Day."

The impacts of climate change are already being felt in Pakistan, as “there has been an increase in the incidence, frequency, and intensity of extreme climatic events: more intense and heavier rainfall in coastal areas, more intense cyclones, more intense flooding in flood-prone areas along the Indus, and more pronounced droughts in the arid areas of Khuzdar.” 

Other current impacts of climate change include increasingly erratic rainfall patterns, a shift in the cropping period, and hotter summers and warmer winters.

For more information about climate change impacts in Pakistan, see the Oxfam report, “Climate Change, Poverty and Environmental Crisis in the Disaster Prone Areas of Pakistan.”