UN Chief: Pakistan floods are "monsoon on steroids"

• Monsoons have hit Pakistan "earlier and more heavily than usual" this year, with more monsoons expected in September, per AP.
• Sherry Rehman, Pakistan's minister for climate change, dubbed the floods a "climate catastrophe" earlier this week.
• The extreme floods have been linked to climate change, as studies indicate that extreme precipitation events are becoming more intense and longer-lasting as global temperatures increase.
• USAID announced on Tuesday that it would provide Pakistan with an additional $30 million in humanitarian assistance to help it recover from the devastation caused by the floods.

What they're saying: "The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids — the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding," Guterres said, noting that "every province of the country has been affected."

• Guterres announced that the U.N. was launching a $160 million appeal to support the response to the floods and urged nations to step up and do their part to help.

• "South Asia is one of the world’s global climate crisis hotspots. People living in these hotspots are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts," he said.
• "Let’s stop sleepwalking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change."
• "Today, it’s Pakistan. Tomorrow, it could be your country."

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