According to the latest announcement on February 28, the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate change (IPCC) said: “With the current evolution of global warming, people in the South and southeast Asia should see the inevitable increase in damage to settlement coastal areas and infrastructure caused by rising sea levels, especially East Asian cities”.
The document also warns that if global warming exceeds 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the effects of climate change could be more severe and some of them irreversible.
Images of coral reefs on the Indonesian island of Mapur, provide an accurate measure of Singapore’s sea level history over the past century. (Photo: Jedrxej Majewski)
Sea level rise expert Benjamin Horton (Singapore) said that Asia will be the continent most affected by sea level rise due to the large number of people living in the lowlands of this continent.
For example, China, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam are among the most populous countries in the region which is projected to be below the average annual coastal flood water level. By 2050. In fact, according to him, these six countries, including Vietnam, will accounted for 75% of the 300 million people on the mainland facing the dangers of climate change by the middle of this century.
On the other hand, sea level rise is not the only threat facing Southeast Asia. Climate scientist Winston Chow, one of the authors involved in the IPCC report, said that Asia has suffered from many impacts associated with climate change, such as floods, droughts and heat, urbanization, and loss of biodiversity and habitat.
Facing this alarming situation, the IPCC emphasizes that in order to reduce the impact of climate change on society, adaptation must go hand in hand with efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of the panic crisis.
The IPCC says: “Successful adaptation requires urgent, more ambitious and accelerated action, and rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The sooner emissions are reduced, the better. At a distance, people and nature have more room for adaptation”.
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