Can Southeast Asia cope with record-breaking storms?

Southeast Asia is facing 1 of its worst tempest seasons connected record, arsenic thousands of radical person died oregon are missing crossed Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

Another tempest is presently forming successful the Philippine Sea.

But portion governments are promising to rebuild, it is not wide however they tin spend to bash truthful each twelvemonth arsenic the tempest seasons get worse.

At the aforesaid time, the United Nations announced that it has slashed its 2026 fund for effect to warfare and earthy disasters by half.

These countries are progressively connected their ain – near to effort and enactment cities and lives backmost together, tempest aft storm.

So, however is this changing lives and livelihoods?

And what does the aboriginal of flood betterment look similar crossed Southeast Asia?

Presenter: Dareen Abughaida

Guests:

Alexandre Borde – Environmental economist and CEO of Cibola Partners

Sehr Raheja – Programme serviceman for the Climate Change Programme astatine the Centre for Science and Environment

Benjamin Horton – Dean of the School of Energy and Environment and prof of Earth Science astatine City University of Hong Kong