Climate change fuels humanitarian risks in Asia, Red Cross warns

KUALA LUMPUR -- The continued impacts of climate change will pose challenges across the Asia-Pacific region, becoming a major driver of humanitarian crises, the regional head of an international relief organization warned.

"We are now living in a long emergency of accelerating climate risks that will affect everybody in the world and some countries more than others," said Alexander Matheou, Asia Pacific regional director at the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), in a recent interview with Nikkei Asia.