With nearly a month to go for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP31), the global stage is set for negotiations that often look like standard diplomatic friction between nations, but fundamentally dictate how heavily the common man on the ground is impacted.When a farmer faces drought and crop failure, an economically vulnerable citizen's home is washed away in floods, a coastal resident struggles for fresh drinking water due to saltwater intrusion, or an urban outdoor labourer suffers acute heatstroke and lost wages during extreme heatwaves, they face the fallout of what they can only identify as increasingly unpredictable weather…