In the city of Colombo, the 26-year old Hafsa Jamel, a rising voice in the climate narrative, provides a local perspective on the complex environmental challenges facing Sri Lanka. Colombo itself serves as a unique home base in terms of its relation to the climate crisis at large. It’s situated in the epicentre of a unique island ecosystem of wetlands while also only a short distance from the coast, and so its geography epitomizes the precariousness of climate change.

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