Study: Climate-induced disasters significantly weaken Pakistan’s societal resilience

Motorcyclists ride through a flooded street after a heavy rainfall in Lahore, Pakistan, July 1, 2024. FILE - Volunteers provide lime sugar water to people at a camp set up to prevent heat stroke on a hot day in Karachi, Pakistan, May 23, 2024.

A new study has revealed that recent floods in Pakistan have substantially weakened its societal resilience in coping with and recovering from such disasters as the threat from climate change continues to grow.