“We did not come here by choice. The flood took everything.” These were the words of countless survivors of Pakistan’s 2022 floods—one example among millions of climate migrants displaced not by war or politics, but by water, drought, and rising temperatures. As the climate crisis accelerates, the number of people forced from their homes by climate-induced factors is rising globally. In Pakistan, this is not an abstraction. From the 2010 super-floods to the catastrophic 2022 monsoon deluges that affected over 33 million people, climate events are displacing families on an unprecedented scale. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), approximately 8.2 million Pakistanis were displaced internally by disasters in 2022 alone—and that figure is only expected to grow.

The Indus River, Pakistan’s lifeline, is shrinking as northern glaciers retreat and upstream mismanagement compounds the crisis. Regions like the........

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