A new UN report has warned of the acute danger of an "urban heat effect" on several large cities, including Karachi, raising new concerns about how the cash-strapped government will prevent or mitigate urban climate disasters. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in its Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2025, identified Karachi among nine major Asia-Pacific megacities projected to become "substantially hotter", primarily due to rapid, unplanned urbanisation and strained infrastructure creating the urban heat island effect, where dense construction, concrete and asphalt absorb and retain heat, pushing city temperatures anywhere from 2°C to 7°C higher than surrounding areas less-developed areas.

The burden of this urban crisis will also not fall equally on citizens, as

See Full Page