The Asia-Pacific region has been particularly undercut: Only three of the fund’s 74 approved projects are in Southeast Asia. The project’s shortcomings have dimmed expectations for any future aid. It also makes it much harder to avoid a warming of the planet by 2 degrees Celsius, a threshold that is widely deemed as unacceptably risky. “If we do not change course by 2020, we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change,” the U.N.’s secretary general António Guterres said, urging world leaders to “break the paralysis” on the issue. : Airports around the world are vulnerable to rising sea levels.

Source: New York Times September 10, 2018 20:16 UTC