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Southeast Asia’s Coming Climate Crisis | New Perspectives on Asia | CSIS

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Climate change represents one of the greatest threats to long-term regional stability in Southeast Asia.

In recent months, Southeast Asia, like the rest of the world, has marshalled its resources to deal with the acute public health crisis presented by Covid-19. Even as the present crisis drains the region’s resources and challenges its capacity, the looming danger of climate change remains ever-present. Already this year, more than 500,000 people have been displaced by weather-related natural disasters across the region. Typhoon’s Phanfone and Vongfong have struck the Philippines, while Indonesia’s capital has twice been inundated by region-wide flooding. Although these have been discreet…

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