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Zareen Zahid Qureshi

Zareen Zahid Qureshi, a development practitioner in Pakistan, is chief executive of ZVMG Rangoonwala Trust’s youth-empowerment initiative. She was director of Children of Adam in Pakistan and national manager of the Poverty Eradication Initiative. After the 2022 floods she led relief efforts in Balochistan.

COP and women: change of political climate needed

Women, though disproportionately affected by climate change, are an afterthought when it comes to climate action.

Flooded Pakistan, symbol of climate injustice

Zareen Zahid Qureshi

The $9 billion promised to Pakistan is only a sticking plaster until the west acknowledges the dire climate legacy in south Asia.