Political upheavals across Asia show how climate breakdown deepens inequalities and breeds social unrest. Global heating is on track to breach the critical 1.5°C limit, and communities across Asia pay the highest price in lives, livelihoods, and ecosystems lost.
The research shows that fossil fuels produced by the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, including ExxonMobil, BP, Saudi Aramco and Shell, have directly intensified and increased the frequency of heatwaves across the globe.
Taxpayers in Indonesia, and Bali in particular, deserve to have their hard-earned money spent on upgrading infrastructure, restoring loss and damage, and public services – not overdevelopment and over-construction that benefits foreign-owned businesses and not the people.
Under the banner Draw the Line, communities will mobilize in towns and cities to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence, and for a just transition and a future built on renewable energy, fairness, and peace.
The ADB must redirect its investments toward these climate solutions centered on people and ecological integrity, not profit.
Fisherwoman Yasinta Adoe writes to Prabowo’s niece and lawmaker Rahayu Saraswati Djojohadikusumo about climate impacts in her community in an online letter calling for ambitious climate action from Indonesia, one of Asia’s biggest emitters.
