Adapting to climate change becoming a race to survival

Big Oil, Big Gas, and Big Coal will have to face up to their responsibilities sooner rather than later writes Stephen Leonard

Earlier this year in Myanmar, torrential rain caused mudslides that wiped out hundreds of houses and caused large-scale crop destruction.

More than 1.3 million people were affected, and over 100 died. In Vietnam, the same deluges caused toxic slurry pits from coal mines to overflow and run through villages, and into the World Heritage-listed Ha Long Bay; the death toll was 17.