Over a billion. People will be at risk of flooding in coastal areas by 2060
Over one billion people worldwide may be at risk from devastating floods in coastal areas by 2060 due to the effects of climate change and population growth, warns a study of the British charity Christian Aid.
"The rapid growth of urban populations along coastlines worldwide --ena result of natural population growth and economic metanastefsis-- combined with growing threats from climate change will endanger more than one billion people due to flooding in coastal areas by 2060, "the report says.
According to the study, China, India and the US are among the countries that will be hit hardest by such trends. Major Asian cities like Calcutta, Mumbai (Bombay), Dhaka, the Guangzhou, the Shanghai, Bangkok and the United States in Miami in the list of most exposed urban flooding that will hit coastal areas, said the non-governmental organization.
Call for mobilization to implement the Paris Agreement
Alongside today in Bonn, representatives of 195 countries began their first negotiating session following the achievement of the COP21 Agreement to enter into the agreement is implemented. At the start of the work made calls for rapid implementation of the agreement. Developing countries also recalled how the success of the process depends on the commitments made.
"The negotiation phase is behind us, we are now entering the phase of cooperation. All the world is united behind its commitment," said the head of the UN Climate Christiana Figueres, opening the meeting that will last until 26 May.
Over one billion people worldwide may be at risk from devastating floods in coastal areas by 2060 due to the effects of climate change and population growth, warns a study of the British charity Christian Aid.
"The rapid growth of urban populations along coastlines worldwide --ena result of natural population growth and economic metanastefsis-- combined with growing threats from climate change will endanger more than one billion people due to flooding in coastal areas by 2060, "the report says.
According to the study, China, India and the US are among the countries that will be hit hardest by such trends. Major Asian cities like Calcutta, Mumbai (Bombay), Dhaka, the Guangzhou, the Shanghai, Bangkok and the United States in Miami in the list of most exposed urban flooding that will hit coastal areas, said the non-governmental organization.
Call for mobilization to implement the Paris Agreement
Alongside today in Bonn, representatives of 195 countries began their first negotiating session following the achievement of the COP21 Agreement to enter into the agreement is implemented. At the start of the work made calls for rapid implementation of the agreement. Developing countries also recalled how the success of the process depends on the commitments made.
"The negotiation phase is behind us, we are now entering the phase of cooperation. All the world is united behind its commitment," said the head of the UN Climate Christiana Figueres, opening the meeting that will last until 26 May.
