China indispensable on climate, welcomes trade talks: Habeck

China is indispensable to achieving climate goals, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday during a visit to the country.

China must find a safe alternative to coal, Habeck told reporters in the southern city of Hangzhou a day after meeting Chinese officials in the capital Beijing.

Just looking at the figures regarding temperatures across the country you wonder how people can survive in such blistering conditions in a country where not only the people but the institutions concerned are ill equipped to deal with such a situation.

Take the example of Mohenjo Daro, this town in Sindh is better known for its archaeological sites and here temperatures rose as high as 52.2 C while the highest temperature recorded in Pakistan in 2017 was 54C, which was in the city of Turbat, located in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.

At that time no one paid any attention towards rising temperatures as they regarded it as a freak of nature not realizing that the temperatures are now shooting upwards given the effects of global warming.

The temperature in Turbat was the second hottest in Asia and fourth highest in the world, according to Sardar Sarfaraz, Chief Meteorologist at the Pakistan Meteorological Department. This did not really draw the attention of concerned authorities who might have realized that this is just the beginning of a new and dangerous phenomenon, which could not only affect individuals but the country as a whole endangering the life and health of the population locally and globally.

Mohenjo Daro is a small town that does experience extremely hot summers but nothing close to what it is experiencing at the moment.