International experts have urged governments in Southeast Asia to prioritise creating climate change resilience for their citizens, as the region faces more destructive natural disasters due to global warming. The disaster has displaced millions of people from their homes and left them in poverty and insecurity. They said “climate refugee” was an emerging, serious crisis confronting humanity in the 21st century because the worsening climate change scenario would intensify natural disasters around the world, not only displacing people from their habitats but also devastating important agricultural areas and harming food security. A researcher on climate change from Stockholm Environment Institute, Andrea R Torre, said last year’s figures on migration and climate change in Southeast Asia showed the region had suffered the most from natural disasters. About 8.6 million people forced to migrate due to weather hazards in 2017 were from Southeast Asia, about 46 per cent of the total number displaced. Major natural disasters took the form of floods, typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, drought and landslides that posed a hazard to habitat and the livelihood of people in Southeast Asia, notably in Indonesia and the Philippines. Torre said natural disasters had already become the biggest reason for mass migration worldwide,… Read full this story
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