The 80th United Nations General Assembly convenes this month under the theme "Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights". For Pakistan, the session offers not just another forum for speeches, but a crucial stage to demand justice on behalf of climate-vulnerable nations.

Each word of the UNGA theme — peace, development, human rights — rings hollow when measured against the reality of climate injustice. There can be no peace when communities are repeatedly displaced by floods, no development when agriculture collapses, and no human rights when people are stripped of homes and livelihoods by a crisis they did not create.

The delegation Pakistan sends to New York must put climate change at the heart of its diplomacy. This is not a matter of prestige but of su

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