As Epic Floods Ravage His Nation, Pakistan Envoy Offers Climate Battle Plan

As a third of the Islamic Republic of 220 million people lay underwater as a result of the worst floods in the nation's history, Pakistan's envoy to the United Nations revealed to Newsweek a plan to combat the worsening effects of global climate change and prevent future calamities from befalling other nations.

"Today it is Pakistan, tomorrow it could be another country," Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations, Munir Akram, told Newsweek, "so we all need to act in solidarity and find collective ways of how to address this existential threat."

While much has been said by nations regarding combating climate change, and commitments have even been made at the national and multilateral levels, Akram said that now "we need action." He outlined four steps the international community can take toward fighting back against the increasingly apparent effects of the global crisis.