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The island has also launched a three-tier heat response care system for the elderly in the southern city of Tainan, where heat-related illnesses among older residents have grown fivefold in a decade.
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Climate ‘loss and damage’ should include supply chain impacts
Ensuring funds reach countries most in need, quickly and equitably, is climate finance’s biggest challenge.
Seoul will also keep 2026 EV and hydrogen-vehicle subsidies at current levels, halting a long-running policy of annual cuts aimed at nudging the market towards self-sufficiency.
Heavy rainfall across the region was caused by the combination of natural phenomena and climate change but in Indonesia's Sumatra, where the most lives have been lost, the scale of disaster was worsened by deforestation.
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