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Flood-ravaged Afghanistan braces for climate impacts

...floods of July 2023. “It was terrifying. There was mud and water everywhere,” he tells The Third Pole. “We weren’t prepared for this kind of damage.” Beginning late in the month, flash floods destroye...

10 Oct 2023

Flood-ravaged Afghanistan braces for climate impacts

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Poorest districts worst affected in Ho Chi Minh City floods

...flood-prone areas in recent years. Generally it is Ho Chi Minh’s outskirts, predominantly home to migrants and lower-income households, that suffer the highest rates of subsidence and flooding. The 20...

9 Oct 2023

Poorest districts worst affected in Ho Chi Minh City floods

News / Policy & Finance

Don't forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged

At home on a flood-prone island in northern Bangladesh, Mosammat Shahina and her family take refuge from frequent inundations on a boat, causing upheaval that adds to her domestic workload. "I have t...

9 Apr 2024

Don't forget women in new UN climate fund, policymakers urged

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Too hot to learn: Why school heat is a growing problem

...flooding, earthquakes and landslides, rather than slow-onset hazards like heat, she adds. Bhuju hopes that their survey results can feed into policy, particularly local heat-management plans and heat-...

5 Sep 2025

Too hot to learn: Why school heat is a growing problem

Podcasts / Corporate Responsibility

To fight ESG scepticism, build alliances: Singtel’s Andrew Buay on the survival secrets of a chief sustainability officer

...flooding from cyclones. So the way we've had to think about network design and adaptation could be very different from a place like Singapore, where there's a lot more work done at the governmental le...

18 Feb 2025

To fight ESG scepticism, build alliances: Singtel’s Andrew Buay on the survival secrets of a chief sustainability officer

News / Carbon & Climate

Climate change drives upsurge in 'Christmas typhoons' in the Philippines

The Philippines experienced an increase in “Christmas typhoons” and tropical cyclone-induced rainfall over the last couple of decades, according to the country’s latest climate report. The report, to ...

16 Oct 2024

Climate change drives upsurge in 'Christmas typhoons' in the Philippines

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

School’s out: how climate change is already badly affecting children’s education

...floods are keeping many children out of school entirely. Floods can prevent children from travelling to school and cause damage to school buildings and materials, which disrupts learning and lowers te...

22 Mar 2024

School’s out: how climate change is already badly affecting children’s education

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Bangladesh confronts growing threat of warming-driven floods

...flood preparedness and community protection, combined with a transition to a low-carbon energy pathway. Why are floods in Bangladesh getting worse? Flooding is part of the physical make-up of low-lyin...

29 Aug 2023

Bangladesh confronts growing threat of warming-driven floods

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Bracing for climate realities: How ESG is influencing insurers’ strategies in Malaysia

...flood coverage take-up rate and advise to our customers in flood-prone areas to buy coverage. We continue to underwrite them in this case, monitor the situation and adjust our premiums to factor in fl...

16 Oct 2023

Bracing for climate realities: How ESG is influencing insurers’ strategies in Malaysia

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Rekindling our sacred ties with the land is key to upholding environmental rights in Asean: Max Han Kai Ding

...floods that we experience, the coal transition we’re trying to take on and the biodiversity that we have and need to protect. Our Indigenous peoples already have some of the solutions. So, me and my f...

12 Jun 2025

Rekindling our sacred ties with the land is key to upholding environmental rights in Asean: Max Han Kai Ding

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Filipino conservationists fear new law rubs salt in mangrove wound

Along the flood-prone coasts of the Philippines, one of the defining dilemmas of the climate crisis - how to balance environmental needs with economic development - is dominating a debate around the ...

3 Apr 2024

Filipino conservationists fear new law rubs salt in mangrove wound

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New UN database to help countries tap climate 'loss and damage' fund

...flooding, and food and water shortages. The US government reported the deaths of just 64 people - a figure that was soon contested by researchers. In 2018, a randomised survey of about 3,300 househo...

25 Jan 2024

New UN database to help countries tap climate 'loss and damage' fund

News / Water

Bangladeshi fish farms ‘need climate data support’

...Flooding appears to be the most financially damaging and regularly occurring hazard for hatcheries, open water fish and shrimp, the study said. Between 2011 and 2020, floods resulted in the estimated ...

19 Feb 2024

Bangladeshi fish farms ‘need climate data support’

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Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey

...floods and storms. Conversely, fewer than 20 per cent of people correctly identified the following two statements as false: Nuclear power plants emit CO2 during operations. Today’s global CO2 concen...

25 Aug 2025

Scientists are ‘most trusted’ source of climate information in global-south survey

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Tariff shockwaves: Indonesia’s export strategy under fire

...flood global markets, including Indonesia, with surplus goods. US investors, deterred by harsher trading conditions abroad, will redirect capital back home, while rest-of-world investors chase lower-t...

18 Jun 2025

Tariff shockwaves: Indonesia’s export strategy under fire

News / Cities

Analysis: China’s northern floods show need for climate adaptation strategy

...flooding exposed a number of issues, such as a lack of flood-defence infrastructure, a lack of readiness to use water-retention zones to control floods, and a failure to coordinate along rivers. These...

28 Sep 2023

Analysis: China’s northern floods show need for climate adaptation strategy

News / Energy

How to future-proof China’s grid?

A generation ago in China, power outages were a part of daily life for many as the power grid struggled to catch up with the country’s economic development. In rapidly developing cities and rural area...

21 Aug 2025

How to future-proof China’s grid?

News / Policy & Finance

Singapore’s ‘30 by 30’ food security goal currently under review, confirms government

...flood protection fund which will receive a S$5 billion (US$3.7 billion) top-up. Where eligible, such as for land reclamation, it will also use past reserves. - A S$25 million (US$18.6 million) weather...

5 Mar 2025

Singapore’s ‘30 by 30’ food security goal currently under review, confirms government

Press Releases / United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Surge to 2030: Philippines to host Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

The Government of the Philippines and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) today announced that registrations are now open for the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disas...

6 Aug 2024

Surge to 2030: Philippines to host Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

News / Carbon & Climate

Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?

Researchers call this growing phenomenon “climate anxiety”. A new analysis examines 94 studies focused on climate anxiety, involving 170,000 people across 27 countries, to explore who it is most likel...

15 Aug 2025

Explainer: What is ‘climate anxiety’?

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