September alone this year saw flooding across four continents, resulting in the loss of thousands of loss and unprecedented damages. Within Asia, there were floods in India (in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Manipur, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Kerala) which resulted in 719 deaths and displaced more than 350,000 people. In June, in Bangladesh, floods affected thousands, in Pakistan, heavy rains caused flooding, in China, authorities had to evacuate 110,000 people from their homes in Guangdong, as days of heavy rain caused massive floods in China’s most populous province.