Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-prone region in the world. It also happens to be the most populous, leaving it disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In fact, of the 10 countries most affected by climate change in the last 20 years, six are in Asia.

While the participants in the Ukraine war are spending billions of dollars each day on weapons and other destructive arsenals, millions of people and the leaders in South Asia and Africa are passing days in anxiety with rising external debt, a strong dollar, lingering supply chain disruptions, and food shortages.

Emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s clear how ill-prepared the world was for such a crisis. We can see how our inability to deal with decades-old existential threats – notably the degradation of ecosystems, climate change, and food insecurity – has exposed us to pandemics, disasters triggered by natural hazards, and now worsening hunger.

The World Bank recently published a thorough analysis of various adverse impacts of human-induced climate change that are going to hit the coastal districts of Bangladesh.

World leaders must act fast and more effectively to solve major global and national crises

The latest World Inequality Report shows tackling climate change and social injustice are part of a total political package.

The sleepy Tanzanian port of Mtwara mainly dealt in cashew nuts until late last year. Now it bustles with vessels loading up with coal, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine drives a worldwide race for the polluting fuel.

Given the nature of climate-induced problems faced by the countries in South Asia, policymakers should undertake both adaptation and mitigation measures.

Instead of effectively tackling the issues related to climate change, world leaders have politicised it over the last 30 years.

The streets of rural Bangladesh should value the safety and wellbeing of its users.

Bangladesh needs proper macroeconomic management to avoid middle income trap

In the coming years, we have to deal with a new major global emergency called human-induced climate change, which will cause severe stress to our development investments.

We need good governance to implement projects that will protect coastal districts

Climate change is a problem which was (largely) made in the West, but we are feeling its impacts in countries like ours more than ever.

What is the alternative to Big Business or Big Government?

People living in climate-vulnerable areas urgently need government support

Rising uncertainties are making global compromise and cooperation more unlikely

The average maximum temperature in Bangladesh for the month of August was a three-decade high.

In this era of loss and damage caused by human-induced climate change, Bangladesh needs to invest in different aspects of the issue at the global level for significant enhancement of its climate diplomacy skills.

The summer of 2022 has not yet reached the mid-point, yet we are staring at another year of bleak climate news.