Southeast Asia faces deadly floods and landslides from intensified storms, prompting urgent calls for faster climate adaptation.

Southeast Asia is experiencing worsening climate impacts, with intense typhoons and record rainfall during the northeast monsoon causing deadly floods and landslides across Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Over 500 deaths have been reported, and tens of thousands displaced, as climate change intensifies storm severity. Experts stress urgent adaptation efforts, including community-based strategies and protection of tropical forests, especially in deforestation-prone Indonesia. At the UN climate summit in Brazil, ASEAN nations secured pledges to double adaptation funding by 2025 and triple it by 2035, but advocates warn that faster, locally driven action is critical to building resilience and ensuring sustainable development.