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Climate finance is often seen as a technical puzzle involving better proposals, stronger justifications, more readiness support, and more capacity building. The assumption is straightforward: strengthen technical preparedness, and finance will follow.

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In the century and a half after Tambora, disasters continued to take an enormous toll. Earthquakes, cyclones, and floods claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in multiple events, particularly in the first half of the twentieth century.

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How the youngest female employee of the Tongan weather service is in love with her job and her advice is to people during quiet times with no disasters. 

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Gap between principle and practice risks widening if the country does not more fully include Indigenous people in its climate action plan.

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Temperatures in Saudi Arabia are rising earlier in the year and reaching more dangerous extremes, making the pilgrimage increasingly hazardous not only in the summer months, where in 2024 more than 1300 pilgrims lost their lives.

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