2024 and 2025 have been years where the realities of climate breakdown have been impossible to ignore. From record-breaking heatwaves across South Asia, with India enduring some of its most severe heat events, to devastating floods in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan, and intensifying cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, the lived experience of climate change has accelerated across our region. In late 2025, Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka, affecting over one million people and killing approximately 500, while Pakistan’s 2025 monsoon floods claimed over 946 lives and displaced nearly two million