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. — CNBC
An international team of research scientists from the US OECD and UK’s Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, among others, has found that Asian cities are now disproportionately susceptible to flooding owing to migration patterns and a host of other environmental dangers included in climate change.
Using data projections from the 136 port cities around the world that have populations north of one million people, the report ranked each based on its potential exposure to coastal floods in the 2070s. CNBC has an interactive map of the list’s ten largest Asian urban areas, including Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, and Mumbai, here.
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