Issue 56: MAS, GIC contemplate too-little-too-late future; S-E Asia’s vulnerable workers

In this issue: A climate scenario marked by more but ineffective policies has become the most plausible, according to GIC, while a Deloitte study finds significant exposure among workers in the region to climate disruption.

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Maybe we shouldn’t put too much faith in policymakers

Imagine a world in which governments come up with new climate policies every time there is another extreme weather event, but these policies are never effective enough to get ahead of global warming. So the weather disasters keep coming, and the policies keep changing, but the world keeps getting hotter.