Tackling rising sea level in Singapore and Southeast Asia. The rising sea level due to climate change is beginning to affect millions especially in cities across Southeast Asia. Yet governments are not directly tackling the impending risks ahead. Some delay has also been noticed in implementing adaptation solutions due to economic trade-offs or prioritisation of other issues while many countries are still reeling from the impact of a global pandemic in the past two years.

Political will – the sort of determination used to confront Covid-19 – is needed to tackle climate change, humanity’s gravest risk, at the UN climate summit in Egypt in November.

Fighting climate change in Singapore – carbon taxes and their challenges

While Singapore has a $100 billion long-term plan to safeguard the island from rising seas and other effects of climate change, it should also consider pumping in more funds sooner, not least because forecasts of climate-related damage are changing.