“Countries have to proactively implement adaptation measures in disaster-prone areas through political will, improved governance, education, rationalising land-use policy and, at least in part, through internal resources,” Dr Raman Sukumar at the Indian Institute of Science told me.
The international community has been slow to respond – and even slower still in recent times with a conservative, science-sceptical government in the United States pulling out of climate deals and cutting back on international aid.
When climate-driven disasters occur, they tend to do so in cascades. Wildfires, storms and debris floods, for example, can knock out…
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