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  • 29 inches of rain for five days was Beijing’s heaviest rainfall in 140 years

    29 inches of rain for five days was Beijing’s heaviest rainfall in 140 years

    Canada Global (Web News) The previous few days have seen the highest rainfall in 140 years in China’s capital.

    According to the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, the city received 744.8 millimetres (29.3 inches) of rain between Saturday and Wednesday morning.

    On Tuesday, Chinese authorities claimed that the intense rains in the area of Beijing had wrecked roads, cut off power, and resulted in at least 20 fatalities and 27 unaccounted-for cases.

    Numerous thousands of people were relocated to shelters in public facilities including schools and stadiums in Beijing’s suburbs and other surrounding towns.

    The Chinese capital was shocked by the extent of the water. Beijing typically has dry summers, but this year there was a period of extreme heat.

  • Flood expected in Sutlej as rains to hit Pakistan from Thursday

    Flood expected in Sutlej as rains to hit Pakistan from Thursday

    Canada Global (Web News) The villagers along the Sutlej were on edge after a warning that the river may be in medium to high flood at Ganda Singh Wala, a border village in Kasur, for the next 24 to 28 hours, as the Met Office anticipated further monsoon rainfall starting Thursday [July 13] in various areas of the nation.

    As a result of the ongoing rains in the catchment areas, India will increase the amount of water released into the river. The Ravi and Sutlej rivers in Pakistan saw their biggest flooding in 1988, destroying hundreds of thousands of acres’ worth of crops and way of life.

    In this regard, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has instructed the relevant authorities to continuously monitor the situation at Trimmu Barrage in Jhang district, which controls the flow of the River Chenab, and Jassar, a border town of Narowal district, where the first control structure on the River Ravi in Pakistan is located.

    According to the Met Office, Pakistan will see rain from July 13 to July 17, as monsoon currents from the Arabian Sea are predicted to enter the upper and central regions of the nation on July 12 (pm) and become more intense on July 14.

    On July 14 evening, a westerly wave is also anticipated to hit the higher portions, which means that the interaction between the two systems might result in extreme weather.

    According to the report, from July 14 to July 17, heavy rains might create urban floods in low-lying parts of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Gujranwala, and Lahore. They could also produce landslides in Murree, Galliyat, Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

  • World Bank projects two more dark years for Pakistan’s economic growth

    World Bank projects two more dark years for Pakistan’s economic growth

    Canada Global (Web News) The World Bank downgraded Pakistan’s current-year GDP growth by 1.6% to 0.4%, citing the disastrous consequences of the August 2022 floods, policy uncertainty, and dwindling foreign exchange supplies as factors that have slowed down economic activity.

    Furthermore, it painted a gloomy picture of Pakistan’s medium-term prospects by stating that the country’s economic recovery was predicted to be anaemic, at just 2 percent in 2023–2024 and 3 percent in 2024–25. The small budgetary space the government has to facilitate the recovery from flood-related losses is cited as the cause of this tendency.

    The World Bank predicted that the growth rate will remain at 2 percent in 2023–24, the next fiscal year, down 1.2 percent from an earlier prediction made in January of this year. This prediction was made in its most recent report, “Global Economic Prospects.”

    The most recent forecast was released shortly after the National Economic Council (NEC) on Tuesday announced a 3.5 percent growth objective for the next fiscal year.

  • Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America

    Glacial lake floods threaten communities in Asia, South America

    Canada Global (Web News) Around 15 million people worldwide are at increased risk of flooding due to melting mountain glaciers, according to researchers in a report released on Tuesday. Communities in Asia are most at risk.

    Often, runoff from melting glaciers pools in little lakes that are kept back by obstructions like boulders. The danger arises when a lake overflows, breaking through its protective natural barrier and unleashing a flood of water into mountain valleys.

    For the first time, scientists have estimated how many people on the planet are at risk from these floods, and they have discovered that more than half of these populations reside in India, Pakistan, China, and Peru.

    According to a study that was published in the journal Nature Communications, the risk is greatest when a lot of people reside close to a lake.

    No disaster is natural; rather, it is the presence of people, particularly vulnerable people, in the landscape that leads to a disaster, according to Stuart Dunning, a physical geographer at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and a co-author of the study.

    Floods caused by glacial lake outbursts are expected to get worse as the climate warms.

    Between 2006 and 2016, the world’s glaciers collectively lost 332 gigatonnes of ice annually. Globally, glacial lakes have grown in size and number by around 50% since 1990.

    Around 9 million people reside close to more than 2,000 glacial lakes in Asia’s high highlands. More than 100 individuals died in an outburst flood in India in 2021.

  • Chaudhry Shujaat says Shehbaz and Bilawal are “begging” for country

    Chaudhry Shujaat says Shehbaz and Bilawal are “begging” for country

    Canada Global (Web News) PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain chastised critics for referring to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto as “beggars,” claiming that both were “begging” for the sake of the country.

    Shujaat chastised the opposition for referring to Shehbaz and Bilawal as beggars in a statement.

    “They are pleading for flood victims’ rehabilitation and economic development,” he said.

    “We will also join them in this good deed,” he added, urging the “critics” to take action to solve people’s problems.

    An international donor summit in Geneva was co-hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

    In order to assist the Pakistani people and government in overcoming the problem of post-flood reconstruction and rehabilitation, the conference brought together governments, leaders from the public and private sectors, and members of civil society.

    In order to rehabilitate, recover, and rebuild flood-affected areas, Pakistan received approximately $10 billion in promises from international financial institutions, donor agencies, and development partners.

  • Pakistan will be among the first recipients of G7 ‘Global Shield’ climate funding.

    Pakistan will be among the first recipients of G7 ‘Global Shield’ climate funding.

    Canada Global (Web News) According to a G7 effort called “Global Shield” that would provide funds to nations affected by climate disasters, Pakistan, Ghana, and Bangladesh will be among the first recipients of funding. The programme was unveiled on Monday during the COP27 summit in Egypt.

    The 58 economies that are considered to be climate-vulnerable as part of the “V20” group are helping to build it.

    As Pakistan sought “climate justice” at a global climate meeting last week, PM Shehbaz Sharif urged the international community to share responsibility for climate change in his speech to the COP27 UN climate summit.

    The prime minister stated during the summit that “in Pakistan, more than 30 million people have been seriously affected; floods caused widespread destruction due to extraordinary rains; 8 thousand km of roads and 3 thousand km of railway lines were disrupted.”

    Senator Sherry Rehman, the federal climate change minister, warned during a panel discussion at the COP27 UN summit that delaying climate justice for the world’s most vulnerable people would be the equivalent of giving them the “death sentence.” She added that in the current race against time for adapting to the climate crisis, those with better resources would do so faster while others would have to wait longer.

    She claimed that the weak will always be the first to fall in any nation.

    Senator Rehman continued, “We are here to serve as a reminder that delaying climate justice for the disadvantaged is exposing them to a death sentence.”