Residents of Nha Trang, a coastal city in southern Vietnam, wade through water in the streets following devastating flooding in November that claimed the lives of at least 90 people. The disaster coincided with the COP climate summit in Brazil, ahead of which Amnesty and Better Planet Laboratory published groundbreaking research demonstrating
the scale of the potential harm caused by the fossil fuel industry. The Extraction Extinction report showed how at least 2 billion people – roughly a quarter of the world’s population – face risks to their health and livelihoods from fossil fuel infrastructure. Read the report: visit amnesty.org and search ‘extraction extinction’.