Myanmar: Is Yearly Flooding the New Normal?

Sep 9, 2016 | Hein Ko Soe, Fronteir
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Environmentalists and activists told Frontier that they believed there were two factors driving more regular flooding. The first is man-made climate change. Myanmar’s National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA), which was drafted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, forecasts that Myanmar will be subject to both increased drought and flooding as a result of climate change.