CLIMATE CHANGE AND SECURITY OF PAKISTAN

Abstract

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty first century. It is becoming an issue of High Politics in many countries. Pakistan is one of the top ten countries which is most vulnerable to climate change related risks. The purpose of this research is to investigate the threats to the security of Pakistan caused by Climate Change. This research finds out that climate change is a serious threat to the security of Pakistan by exacerbating the issues like water scarcity, food security, health problems, internal migrations and conflict over natural resources. The research finds out that Climate change and security has a closer relation and that Pakistan is facing both internal and external security threats induced by climate change. Furthermore, conflict could occur between Pakistan and its neighbor countries particularly India and Afghanistan, on resources which are declining due to global warming and climate variation. This is qualitative research, and the data has been collected mostly, from secondary sources. It has answered the question like how climate change can be a threat to Pakistan security and that how it can destabilize the country internally and externally.