Climate & Environmental Issues

Driven from their fields by increasingly erratic weather patterns that devastate their crops, more Nepali farmers are migrating in search of new livelihoods. But their escape from one climate disaster lands them in another, with rising temperatures in the Gulf exacerbating already dangerous working conditions.

With the CEO of the UAE’s national oil company set to preside over the COP28 talks later this year, the Vital Signs partnership’s latest report lays bare how migrant workers in the Gulf are already experiencing the deadly effects of extreme temperatures