Children Climate Risk Index (CCRI) Across Districts of Pakistan
摘要
Climate change and environmental shocks are not myths anymore, but a reality. Although, Pakistan contributes very low carbon footprint in the emissions, but faces higher climate risk exposure. Such heterogeneous effect raises concerns for environmental justice. Unfortunately, Pakistan ranks among top ten countries facing severe climate risk and ranks top fifteen among countries with high children climate risk index (Eckstein et al., The global climate risk index 2021. Germanwatch, Bonn, 2021; Rees, 2021). However, children climate risk index (CCRI) has not been estimated at the district level of Pakistan. Due to diverse topography of Pakistan, CCRI index is likely to vary across districts. Therefore, aim of this chapter is to estimate CCRI at the district level adapting methodology from United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report (Rees, 2021) which is in-line with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) framework 2014. Results show that CCRI varies across districts in Pakistan, based on their different levels of exposure to environmental and climatic shocks and child vulnerability. This chapter recommends need for climate resilient policies with special focus on children living in districts with higher climate risk.