Malaysian fears the recent extreme events that took place around the world.
The record-breaking heatwaves in America and Canada in June and July this year, the flash floods in Europe, Japan, China, and India, forest fires in Turkey, Greece, and Italy, and the U.S., and the flash floods in four U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania and New Jersey that killed more than 40 people, is a sign for the worst flooding to come to the country late this year during its wet season.
Like most neighbouring Southeast Asian countries, Malaysia remains vulnerable to floods, landslides, haze, and water pollution.
According to an article in the ASEAN Post, in the last two decades leading to 2018, Malaysia has experienced 51 natural disaster events that claimed 281 lives, affected 3 million people costing the country around US$2 billion in damages.
The IPCC 2021 report revealed that average global temperatures from 2011 and 2020 have already become 1.1C degrees warmer than they were between 1850 to 1900. We are on a trajectory to exceed the 1.5C threshold by 2040, a temperature limit agreed upon in the Paris climate deal and a point where climate scientists believe irreversible changes to our climate will happen (Climate home, 2021).
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