Heat Early Warning System in Pakistan: Current status and recommendations
This case study examines the current state of Pakistan’s heat early warning system, including how heat risk is understood and monitored, and how warnings are issued, communicated and acted upon across institutions. It finds a strong and growing evidence base on extreme heat and its impacts, supported by a national heat monitoring and forecasting system with regionally and monthly differentiated thresholds. Warning dissemination is well established through government agencies, media and telecommunications providers, while preparedness is supported by a formalised architecture operating across national, provincial and city levels.
It complements the global report Understanding the Global Landscape of Heat Early Warning Systems and is part of a series of case studies across eight countries in the Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance. Together, the case studies apply a common analytical framework to assess heat early warning systems and identify good practices, gaps and enabling conditions for people-centred, impact-based early warnings for extreme heat.