Researchers found that people in poorer communities face a far higher risk of death from diseases after typhoons – with limited healthcare access and flooding from heavy rainfall worsening the impacts.
Even as political denial and regulatory paralysis grip parts of the West, a different message has been resounding across Asia – it is not retreating, but rising to the occasion.
Current macroeconomic frameworks rightly treat climate shocks as threats to fiscal stability, but do not recognise the economic benefits of investing in measures that mitigate their effects.
A year-long government “sandbox” study identifies recurring conflicts in solar, aquaculture-solar, micro-hydropower and geothermal projects, prompting policy reforms …