Daviz Simango, mayor of Beira on the Mozambican coast, had worked to shore up the city's climate defences, drawing on World Bank help to build deterrents against rising seas, flooding and storms.
But in just a few hours last month, Cyclone Idai devastated the city of half-a-million people, wiping out his efforts.
But many would agree that Cyclone Idai is entirely consistent with scenarios about the impact on weather systems of global warming – the relentless buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by burning coal, oil, and gas. The world's nations agreed in 2015 to cap the global rise in temperature at 2C from pre-Industrial Revolution levels.
The city has grown rapidly in recent decades, fed by an influx of people fleeing the civil war that ended more than 20 years ago after claiming at least a million lives. The work including rehabilitating the water drainage system, upgrading and building 11km of canals, creating floodgates, and building a large water retention basin.
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