Abstract:
Climate change is amongst the critical issues that the current world is facing. The Concept of security has undertaken international swift after the termination of the cold war and human security paid equal attention, thus challenging the concept of traditional security. Climate change is a global issue with local consequences thus states have faced the worst consequences of increasing climate change in terms of substantial humanitarian fatalities, socio-economic instabilities, and political
turbulence beyond discrimination of any border. Therefore, they started mainstreaming the issue
of climate change in their national security policies. Vulnerabilities maximized in the case of
Pakistan because of its geographical location, agrarian setup, and least adaptive capacity despite
its slightest contribution in the emission of Green House Gas (GHG) and has been tolerating the
enormous penalties in terms of extreme weather patterns coupled with late monsoons, dry winters in addition to erratic and rigorous rainy patterns and prolonged dry spells. Despite significant humanitarian and economic losses due to the non-traditional security threat of climate change.
Pakistan, unfortunately, has always adopted the narrower concept of security that is always knitted
from a traditional lens since inception. However, it has articulated policy on climate change, taken some laudable measure and commendable acts, but very late unlike other states and even then, not incorporated issue in its national security policy. Hence, this research tries to explore the nexus between climate change and national security, in the case of Pakistan. The Literature on ‘climate change’ and its association with ‘national security’ in Pakistan’s context is enormously underprovided and this research is an initiative which with the help of research-based elements has developed a concrete relationship between said variables and tried to bridge the gulf between
climate change and national security.
