reader Posted September 21, 2021 Posted September 21, 2021 From CNBC Climate change will bring flooding to the world’s coasts, and it’s becoming clearer which cities are most threatened. Cities with the worst exposure to coastal flooding in the coming decades are overwhelmingly located in Asia, according to a comprehensive analysis by leading climate scientists, with port cities in India and China particularly vulnerable. Researchers at the OECD, climate risk modeling firm RMS and Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, among others, cited four major factors creating the threat: the deepening climate emergency, the gradual cave-ins of land, rising populations, and the migration of people from the countryside to urban areas. The threat comes as the United Nations’ climate panel warns of increasingly extreme weather events, with some of the changes that are already in motion — such as continued sea level rise — thought to be “irreversible” for millennia to come. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres described the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s landmark report as “a code red for humanity.” He added: “There is a clear moral and economic imperative to protect the lives and livelihoods of those on the front lines of the climate crisis.” Here, CNBC takes a look at the 10 Asian cities most exposed to coastal flooding through to 2070: Continues with interactive mapping https://www.cnbc.com/the-10-asian-cities-most-threatened-by-climate-change-flooding/ Quote
