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Around one million people have been evacuated from their homes and at least 16 people were killed as a cyclone hits the coastal districts of Bangladesh
Officials also advised nearly 33,000 Rohingya refugees, moved from camps to a flood-prone island in the Bay of Bengal, to stay indoors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said. "They don't act. They can talk but they don't act," she said on a visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
US climate envoy John Kerry will travel to the UAE, India and Bangladesh ahead of next month's climate summit hosted by Washington.
The global humanitarian response for Ukraine showed the level of support that can be mobilised for people in crisis. This treatment must be extended to Afghanistan and Bangladesh where people are facing severe climate disasters, writes Jessica Adams.
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh over the past 11 days as they continue to flee violence and persecution
Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, but death tolls reduced due to early warning systems, according to the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The impact of climate change 'disproportionally' affected poor farming, fishing and other communities mainly relying on the extraction of natural resources for their livelihoods, a UN report said.
Over 1,500 people in Pakistan and other countries have already paid the price for a worsening climate crisis, but these disasters will continue to grow explains Jessica Adams, if governments don't urgently take action at the upcoming Cop27.
Amid extreme temperatures across the globe, Shabana Mir offers her insights and advice on how to cope with rising temperatures, and how to dismantle the system that created a climate catastrophe.