#DisasterPreparedness

Asia is experiencing a rapid acceleration in climate change, warming at twice the rate of the global average, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This alarming trend, highlighted in the WMO’s latest assessment released in June 2025, points to sweeping and devastating impacts for millions across the continent—including Thailand—underscoring urgent calls for adaptation and resilience measures.

For Thai readers, this news is particularly significant given the country’s vulnerability to heat waves, shifting rainfall patterns, and sea-level rise. Thailand, with its extensive agricultural sector and dense urban populations near coasts and rivers, stands at the frontline of Asia’s climate crisis.

A bold call for $1.4 billion in emergency funding to provide sexual and reproductive health services for over 45 million people living in crisis-affected countries has been issued, underscoring the acute challenges faced by women and girls amid escalating global crises. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched this appeal as part of its effort to address an urgent resource gap that is putting lives at risk, with a specific focus on life-saving reproductive health care and programs to prevent gender-based violence (UN News).