COP31 has opened in Antalya with the same familiar and dispiriting contest over money. The UN Secretary-General has urged leaders to "get serious" about a crisis that is no longer a forecast but a daily emergency. Yet, developing nations have had to fight just to put climate finance on the official agenda. For countries like Pakistan, this is not just a diplomatic spectacle. It is a matter of survival.

Pakistan has a negligible carbon footprint - it contributes less than 1% of global........

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