High water in the seas offshore and rivers on land increasingly threatens Indonesia’s capital city. The government has big plans to deal with it, but some of the city’s poorest residents say the projects will leave them high and dry.
A powerful typhoon rolling through the central Philippines just days after the historic Paris climate agreement was a stark reminder that the work of adapting to rising seas and bigger storms has barely begun. The Paris agreement commits rich counties to help out poorer ones, but it could also bring a lot of private money into play.