The climate debate worldwide is framed as if the environmental hazard is a shared problem with shared responsibility. The reality, however, is totally different. Carbon emissions are unequal, and climate damage falls unequally. That mismatch, carbon inequality, has silently become one of the biggest blind spots in global climate governance. And countries like Pakistan, which contribute very little to the problem, keep paying an enormous price in disasters, fiscal stress and lost growth.

Begin with what the figures are portraying. UNEP's Emissions Gap Report 2024 estimates that under current policies, global GHG emissions in 2030 remain around 57 gigatonnes of........

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