Bottom-up governance is the way to go to fight climate change

WHEN I lived in the US some years back, I just loved watching The Weather Channel on cable TV. There was always a new story even when I loaf around mindlessly, glued to the old-fashioned tube, imbibing the ever-changing climatic patterns, and seeing where the next hurricane is hitting. But there is an abysmal feeling of helplessness as it is not possible for me, at least, to change the flow of winds and water.

Indeed an American writer, Charles Dudley Warner, famously said: "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

Yet it is with a deep sense of empowerment that I witnessed first-hand the serious collective commitment to tackle the perils of climate change at the Ecosperity 2017 conference convened by Singapore's Temasek Holdings just this month. This event was held in conjunction with the World Environment Day.