Confronting the new climate reality in Asia and the Pacific
ON Monday, world leaders will gather at the UN in New York for the Climate Action Summit.
Their goal is simple – to increase ambition and accelerate action in the face of a mounting climate emergency.
For many this means ambition and action that enables countries to decarbonise their economies by the middle of the century. But that is only half the equation.
Equally ambitious plans are also needed to build the resilience of vulnerable sectors and communities being battered by climate-related disasters of increasing frequency, intensity and unpredictability.
Nowhere is this reality starker than in the Asia-Pacific region, which has suffered another punishing year of devastation due to extreme events linked to climate change.
