A Wind From the West.

Sherry Rehman, who serves as minister for climate change in the country's ruling coalition, estimates that the crisis has affected more than 33 million people. ALTHOUGH PAKISTAN ACCOUNTS FOR LESS THAN 1 percent of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions, its people have become the victims of an unprecedented climate catastrophe. After a monsoon season in which rainfall exceeded average levels by 780 percent, a third of the country has been flooded, with more than 1,000 people killed in what officials are describing as the worst climate disaster in Pakistan's history. [Extracted from the article]