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Cities most exposed to climate change
2.1.5 Cities most exposed to climate change Current assets Future assets exposed ($ billion) exposed ($ billion) Rank Country City 1 USA Miami 416 3,513 2 PRC Guangzhou 84 3,357 3 USA New York-Newark 320 2,147 4 India Kolkata 32 1,961 PRC Shanghai 73 1,771 6. India Mumbai 46 1,598 7 PRC Tianjin 30 1,231 8 Japan Tokyo 174 1,207 9. PRC Hong Kong, China 36 1,163 10 Thailand Bangkok 39 1,117 11 PRC Ningbo 1,074 12 USA New Orleans 234 1,013 13 Japan Osaka-Kobe 216 969 14 Netherlands Amsterdam 128 843 15 Netherlands Rotterdam 115 826 16 Viet Nam Ho Chi Minh City 27 653 17 Japan Nagoya 109 623 18 PRC Qingdao 3 602 PRC = People's Republic of China, USA = United States of America. Source: OECD 2010.
Cities most exposed to climate change
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This would have very serious consequences for Asia’s many countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Geography, climatology, low per capita income, and patterns of urbanization pu...
t Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam at risk of losing 6.7% of their combined GDP by 2100 if temperatures
change as the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change predicts. This is more than twice the global average of losses linked to climate change. Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), the Philippines, the Mekong Delta, central Thailand, and Sumatra and Java in Indonesia are more at risk than wealthier countries such as Brunei Darussalam and Singapore. The PRC and India could use up 1%–12% of their annual GDP coping with climate refugees, altered disease vectors, and failing crops. Bangladesh, where 15% of the population lives within 1 meter of sea level at high tide, is prone to flooding, tropical cyclones, and storm surges—not to mention drought. In Cambodia, substantial human and crop losses are attributed to worsening drought and flooding that are likely only preludes to more extreme weather.
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2010), 7 of the world’s 10 cities most exposed to climate change are in developing Asia (Table 2.1.5).
Cities are not the only places under threat.
Large swathes of rural coastal areas in Asia are vulnerable to climate change. Parts of South Asia, including virtually all of Bangladesh and large parts of Nepal, are at very high risk from climate change.
---- PRC = People’s Republic of China, -----USA = United States of America.
Source: OECD 2010.
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