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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.
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.
°®Âþµº Meets: Rahima Begum whose international human rights organisation from East London is contributing proof to the case on the Rohingya people at the highest United Nations court.