Soaking up the storm: Sponge cities and the future of flood-resilient Southeast Asia

Extreme weather events are occurring at a higher frequency and intensity in Southeast Asia

Originally published on Global Voices

Floods hit Hue city, Vietnam, in 2020. Via Wikimedia Commons By Lê Minh Đức CC BY-SA 4.0

This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development projects abroad. Find more stories here.

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