The year 2023 was recorded as the hottest in the past 173 years. To assess the impact, the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Risks Report 2024 identified climate change as the world’s greatest concern for the next decade. Rising global temperatures have been linked to glacial melting, which is a growing climate vulnerability. Global warming accelerates this melting, leading to the formation and expansion of glacial lakes, thereby increasing the risk of catastrophic flooding. Floods caus...
