{"id":48161,"date":"2022-09-04T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/04\/pakistan-floods-reparations-climate-disaster"},"modified":"2022-09-04T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T06:00:39","slug":"rich-nations-owe-reparations-to-countries-facing-climate-disaster-says-pakistan-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48161","title":{"rendered":"Rich nations owe reparations to countries facing climate disaster, says Pakistan minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry Rehman, the country\u2019s climate change minister, insists rich polluters must pay their due as country is deluded by devastating floods<\/p>\n<p>Rich polluting countries which are predominantly to blame for the \u201cdystopian\u201d climate breakdown have broken their promises to reduce emissions and help developing countries adapt to global heating, according to Pakistan\u2019s minister for climate change, who said reparations were long overdue.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 people are dead and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/sep\/01\/pakistan-floods-satellite-images-underwater-urgent-aid-appeal\">a third of Pakistan is under floodwater<\/a> after weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains battered the country \u2013 which only weeks earlier had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/may\/25\/it-seems-this-heat-will-take-our-lives-pakistan-city-fearful-jacobabad-after-hitting-51c\">suffering serious drought.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/04\/pakistan-floods-reparations-climate-disaster\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry Rehman, the country\u2019s climate change minister, insists rich polluters must pay their due as country is deluded by devastating floodsRich polluting countries which are predominantly to blame for the \u201cdystopian\u201d climate breakdown have broken their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1588,2331,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-aid","category-climate-crisis","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48172,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161\/revisions\/48172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}