Frontline communities in Global South facing climate change, intensified cyclones & storm surges for decades & raising alarm bells have been the canaries in the proverbial coalmine that the US did not heed to act on reducing GHG emissions to prevent runaway climate change. More unnecessary suffering

Catastrophic floods in Bangladesh again just a month after last one. To rebuild each time a home washes away, crops are destroyed, livelihoods ruined, institutions damaged, family killed- this is how exacerbated vulnerability & disasters compound poverty.