Overview

• El Bosque, a coastal town in Mexico, has been almost completely destroyed by climate change-induced flooding and brutal winter storms, leaving only a dozen residents from over 700 just two years ago.
• Rapidly rising sea levels and winter storms, intensified by a warming climate, have displaced the residents who are now living in rentals they can barely afford.
• The U.N. climate summit, COP28, recently agreed on a multimillion-dollar loss-and-damage fund to help developing countries cope with global warming, but it comes too late for the people of El Bosque.
• State oil company Pemex's exploration spree in the Gulf, which tripled crude oil production and made Mexico a major exporter, is seen as a contributing factor to the environmental peril.
• Up to 8 million Mexicans will be displaced by climate change-driven flooding, drought, storms and landslides within the next three decades, according to the Mayors Migration Council.