Appeal to governments to increase funds against climatic shock
Monsonic floods and extreme weather conditions are devastating Asia, with over 130 children already dead and destroyed schools. Save the Children highlights it, by launching an appeal to governments, donors and the international community to increase funding to combat climatic shocks.
Throughout the Asian continent, countries like China, Pakistan, Thailand, Laos and Philippines are scourged by real storms due to a season of the Monsons early compared to the usual, in part due to climate change. Houses and schools have been destroyed, leaving families without shelter and minors without access to education, as in the Philippines where, in recent weeks, several tropical cyclones have completely destroyed about 1,350 classrooms across the country and over 200 institutes are currently used as evacuation centers, further limiting access to spaces in which children and adolescents can study.
The organization then underlines that in Asia the extreme weather conditions are not limited to floods. “The Region is heating up more quickly than the global average, and 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded before, with an increase in victims and economic losses due to flooding, storms and increasingly intense heat waves,” says NGO in a note.
“Monsonic floods in Asia are a cyclical event, but the scope and intensity of those of this year in different countries of the region are extremely worrying. This should be an alarm bell for all of us, including the institutions of the region. We live in an interconnected world and the climate change and extreme weather conditions will all affect us” said Arsha Malik, director of Save the Children International. “Our climate is changing quickly and is damaging those who are less responsible for it: children. This is a global injustice, but there is still time to change course” he added.
