Harjeet Singh

Let's take some more examples from the grassroots, cities, and at the policy level.

Let me take you back to Bangladesh, where we see that farms are flooded for months.

What does that mean?

No crops, no food.

But I have seen it myself, how many farmers in Bangladesh have created these floating farms.

Have you heard of that?

They use a local bamboo material with rich beds of soil and compost, so when floodwaters rise, these farms float, lifting the produce

safely above the water.

How brilliant is that?

So your farms learn to swim.

There are also examples of cities where you see that Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Shanghai and Tianjin in China and Singapore have decided to become sponge cities.

Instead of fighting excess water, they are working to make friends with it.

What does that mean?

It means more green spaces, like porous pavements that can absorb rainwater, more parks, more urban wetlands, and more rooftop gardens.

So what's the impact?

They're not only prepared to fight floods much better, these aspects also clean the air naturally.

They also cool down the neighborhoods, making the city far more pleasant and healthy for everyone.

Now, let's also look at the policy level.

One of the largest climate adaptation initiatives in Africa, Productivity Safety Net Program in Ethiopia, doesn't just provide food aid during droughts, but engages millions of people to create soil and water conservation structures, small irrigation projects, and also revive degraded lands.

Now that's a masterpiece of common sense.