China: A new report published by the XDI Cross Dependency Initiative has stated that China is home to more than three-quarters of the regions most at risk from climate change, with some of the world’s most important manufacturing centres threatened by extreme weather.

According to the report, China’s eastern Jiangsu province ranks as the world’s most climate-vulnerable region, followed by Shandong, Hebei, and Henan. In total, China is home to 16 of the world’s 20 most at-risk regions.

“We’re already feeling the significant impacts of weather events around the world, and they will only increase. Finally, we just want to make sure that every investment decision is made in a climate-resilient way,” XDI Chief Executive Mr. Rohan Hamden shared.

According to the report, after China, the United States is home to the most at-risk areas.

Florida, which is ranked 10th globally, is the US state most under threat, followed by California and Texas. Nine areas of India also made the top 50 at-risk regions. Other major areas in the top 100 include Argentina’s Buenos Aires, Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, and Indonesia’s Jakarta.

In Europe, Germany’s Lower Saxony region is reported as being the most vulnerable to climate change. Italy’s Veneto region, which contains the city of Venice, is ranked the fourth most at-risk region in Europe.

The XDI report assessed 2,600 territories internationally, modelling damage from 1990 to 2050 based on the “pessimistic” scenario of a 3 degree Celsius (5.4 degree Fahrenheit) rise in global temperatures by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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