Accounting for climate change in the trade wars
Published 15 July 2025
“You think global warming; that’s not true. It’s global boiling now and we are right in the midst of the crisis,” says Jason Lee, Associate Professor, Yong Loon Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore.
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Jason Lee presents that global climate change has shifted from "global warming" to "global boiling," creating an immediate crisis that affects all aspects of daily life and work. Heat-related risks are rising across all sectors, with tropical populations not as naturally acclimated as often assumed. People increasingly avoid outdoor heat, reducing incidental physical activity and affecting judgment, safety, and productivity — particularly in physically demanding jobs. Current measures are insufficient; urgent, comprehensive action is needed as heat stress strains health, productivity, and wellbeing, especially amid rapid urbanization and inequality in Southeast Asia.
About the NPF International Trade Fellowship 2025
The National Press Foundation holds an annual International Trade Fellowship workshop for journalists, sponsored by the Hinrich Foundation. This year, the Foundations welcomed 25 Asia-based journalists at the Hinrich Foundation’s office in Singapore. The sessions, held in June, focused on a range of themes including global trade policy, the age of data, the macroeconomic outlook, climate change, Asia’s place in a fast-changing world order and more.
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