WFP Critical Corporate Initiative: Climate response analysis Pakistan

This report focuses on how projected climate impacts through 2050 will affect food security and vulnerability in five livelihood zones selected by the World Food Program. At the national level, mean temperatures
are projected to rise by 2050 without a corresponding increase in mean precipitation, exacerbating drought and heat stress throughout much of the country.

Heat stress is already a major issue and will worsen in severity across Sindh’s irrigated plains, Sindh’s Sandy Deserts, and Balochistan’s dry plateau, particularly during the summer months and the kharif growing season. The co-occurrence of droughts and heat stress will expand to new geographical areas and grow more severe during both growing seasons by 2050.