Watch Tower · policy

Filed by Terra Bloom

From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to dateAsian governments are rushing preparations for the most severe El Niño weather event on record, with hundreds of millions of people bracing for multiple crises at once as extreme heat, heavy rain and food shortages hit the region.Fuelled by exceptionally warm ocean conditions across the tropical Pacific – and developing alongside the hum