The Print (Pakistan) published an article stating that IFPRI’s 2022 Global Food Policy Report highlighted that the Himalayan glaciers have lost more mass since 2000 than in the entire twentieth century. According to IFPRI, Of the world’s five basins where water scarcity-led GDP losses are projected to be highest, three (Indus, Sabarmati, and Ganges-Brahmaputra) are in South Asia. The 2022 GFPR warned that South Asia’s pre-existing vulnerabilities — high levels of poverty, governance challenges, and limited access to basic services and resources — amplify the region’s climate risks, with potentially devastating effects if warming continues at this pace.
Pakistan’s water woes to worsen with climate change (The Print)
May 17, 2022