Report: Future exposure to coastal flood in key cities worldwide

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 Catastrophe Property

As many as 150 million people in the world’s major cities could be reliant on flood defenses by 2070 – more than three times the 40 million people today – as a result of climate change and urban development, according to a major new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and jointly authored by Risk Management Solutions (RMS) and leading academics from the University of Southampton, the Tyndall Centre, Météo-France, and the Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnement et le Développement (CIRED).

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