For Filipinos, the last months of the year spur preparations for the year-end holiday festivities, but they also come with a premonition of devastating tropical cyclones that frequent the region during this season. In the past, they were few. However, the past decade has been unrelenting – dotted with a list of typhoon names, each recalling memories of destruction, of livelihoods disrupted, of lives lost. The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate-related disasters. Each year, this archipelagic country experiences an average of 21 tropical cyclones with var…