Episode 26: The climate crisis in South Asia
The Climate Briefing
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The Impacts of a Flood Event on the National Economy
We could by now put monetary terms to these impacts, the fact that the roads are not being repaired after a flood event. But what we haven't done so far and that's also very important in the loss and damage discussion, we really haven't taken stock of the value of that infrastructure. We cannot reach our hospitals anymore. We are scared that this is going to happen again. There is an impact on our mental health. So this is what we're most concerned about, that the government in this case is not responding to those long term effects. It's not everything can be expressed in money but we have to turn those natural hazards into economic terms to make it palatable for politicians to
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