Accountability For Climate.

Pakistan is experiencing one of the worst floods witnessed in recent years, and the responsibility for the devastation caused by this calamity does not lie on Pakistan's shoulders alone. More than a thousand people have died, close to three-quarters of a million people have been displaced without access to safe and adequate housing, and large swathes of agricultural lands have been flooded, destroying crops and threatening the country's food supply-and this is not merely the consequence of poor governance-but is the result of years and years of unregulated and unbridled carbon emissions released by the world's biggest economies.

This understanding is starting to dawn on the international community finally, which can no longer afford to see these floods as a 'Pakistan problem', after witnessing the sheer unprecedented amount of rainfall experienced by Pakistan. The United Nations and the Pakistani government issued a flash appeal on Tuesday for $160 million, with the UN Secretary-General calling the floods a 'climate catastrophe', saying South Asia was one of the world's climate crisis hotspots.

However, while the aid and donations are appreciated, the international community also needs to take more accountability. Pakistan is...