Dhaka Tops Listing Of Metropolitan Areas Facing Greatest Global Warming Risks

Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has capped a worldwide listing of metropolitan areas facing

the greatest global warming risks within the coming decades, while Indian metropolis Kolkata is rated seventh, Mumbai eighth and Delhi at 20th.

Manila, the main city town of The Philippines, was rated second within the British risk working as a consultant Maplecroft's fifth annual 'Climate Change and Environment Risk Atlas 2013', while Bangkok, Yangon, Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City came third, 4th, fifth and sixth correspondingly.

Chicago, London, St Petersburg, Paris and Madrid would be the only five metropolitan areas considered "safe.

Dhaka came top within the ranking of fifty metropolitan areas by Maplecroft, specialising in risk analysis, because the altering temps and weather systems are forecast to consider hold in the united states within the coming decades.

Maplecroft's Global Warming Vulnerability Index (CCVI) classifies seven metropolitan areas as "extreme risk," from a listing of fifty which were selected for his or her current and future importance in global business, Daily Star newspaper reported today.

The CCVI examines contact with extreme weather occasions for example drought, cyclones, wildfires and storm surges, which result in water stress, lack of crops and land lost towards the ocean.

Having a strong economic development of above 5 percent forecast for nations like the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and India within the next couple of years, the relevance of global warming to populations and business within the major commercial centres shouldn't be underplayed, based on Maplecroft.

The firm stated extreme risk metropolitan areas could see a rise in frequency and harshness of key hydrological and meteorological occasions.

Other metropolitan areas categorised as "high-risk within the CCVI are Lagos, Nigeria (10) Gauteng, Nigeria (13) Rio p Janeiro, South America (21) and Hong Kong (14), Guangzhou (18), Shenzhen (19), Wuhan (23) and Shanghai (24), China.

New you are able to, which required the entire brunt of Superstorm Sandy, is rated 41 from the 50 metropolitan areas.

Maplecroft is really a global risk and strategy talking to firm located in Bath, the United Kingdom

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by: Sophie Adams

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