Asian Countries Face the
Greatest Risk from Severe Climate Change
As Ban Ki Moon said in September 2007 “ Given the nature and magnitude of the
challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this
challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes.
That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one
that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation”
Asian countries including Pakistan face the greatest risk from severe climate
change, which could force millions of people to flee their homes and trigger
environmental migration, according to an Asian Development Bank report.
The report titled "Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific" says
Bangladesh, India, Maldives and Pakistan face the greatest risk, but Indonesia,
the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, China and South Korea are also
especially vulnerable.
Public opinion in Pakistan in recent years has largely disapproved of how the
Government of Pakistan totally ignored the problem of climate change. China, the
U.S. and India seem the most reluctant to sign up to the EU’s “road map”
pointing toward the next climate treaty after the limits in the current one
expire next year, have refused to commit to legal targets, raising the prospect
that no country will have targets to cut emissions after 2012 From the World
Bank commissioned report in 2009: “Public attitudes toward climate change:
findings from a multi-country poll”,comes this interesting look at country wide
attitudes to climate change.