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" BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CLIMATE JUSTICE BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CLIMATE JUSTICE AND CLIMATE FINANCE: COURT-ING CLIMATE CHANGE By Justice Jawad Hassan, Lahore High Court, LL.M Environmental Law, Pace University, School of Law, New York at the Climate Change Conference Navigating Climate Governance Executive Action and Judicial Oversight 8 June 2024 Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad INTRODUCTION The Law Justice Commission of Pakistan under the auspice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (around the World Environment Day) is highlighting, with three panels, the climate change challenges in Pakistan, climate governance and court-ing climate change with the legal anthropology and the jurisprudential anthology, that it is the urgent need for Pakistan to mobilise resources towards not only climate mitigation, but climate adaptation as well. In a recent multi-agency report1 from the United Nations, two notable points stand out: (1) climate change threatens to undermine any work and progress towards achieving our "Sustainable Development Goals" and (2) that we are not doing enough to lower our emissions and meet the goals set out in the Paris Agreement. This latter point is especially concerning as this year's COP29 marks the first global stocktake. The challenges presented by climate change intersect and are often directly related to one another: taking the example of increased incidents of forest fires mean greater biodiversity losses and reduced air quality, consequently adversely affecting public health. From my own country of Pakistan, we saw how last year's floods that swept across country resulted in a devastating loss of life, as well as triggering large scale internal displacement of 8.2 million people2 and disproportionately affected vulnerable segments…