At the same time as the National Climate Change Conference in Kabul, the United Nations has announced that more than 500,000 children in Afghanistan are at risk of malnutrition every year.
“Afghanistan is still vulnerable from the point of view of climate change,” said Roza Otunbayeva, the UN Secretary General’s special representative for Afghanistan, at the National Conference on Climate Change in Kabul.
The United Nations has once again emphasised that limited access to food, combined with extreme climatic conditions, has reduced the Afghan people’s ability to secure food.
In recent years, frequent floods and natural events such as earthquakes have damaged many provinces of Afghanistan, and the Taliban government could not cover the losses of the affected Afghans.
The Taliban government says: “It is the heir to the problem of poverty and malnutrition in this country, which has been exacerbated by natural disasters such as floods and climate change.”
Taliban officials have said that “the international community should send more humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and should not make it conditional and related to the political situation and internal issues of Afghanistan.”
*This news was translated from BBC.*
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