Typhoon Haiyan was just the start: Prepare for an ever stormier future

"In 2012, typhoon Bopha redefined how big a typhoon could get; a year later, Haiyan blew that redefinition out of the water. We need to channel funding into preparation and resilience," writes Karl Mathiesen in The Guardian.

"If there is another storm that is even close to Haiyan there could be higher death tolls, there could be much worse impact because the resilience that existed previously is all down. Everything was destroyed in Haiyan, in terms of evacuation centres, in terms of livelihoods," said Tariq Reibl, Oxfam's humanitarian response manager for the Philippines in an interview with the Guardian.