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Bangladesh tops list of most vulnerable countries to climate change Jeremy Hance mongabay.com December 09, 2009 The report was released today at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. After Bangladesh—rounding out the top ten—comes Myanmar, Honduras, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Haiti, India, Dominican Republic, Philippines and China. No industrialized nations are in the top ten; however Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United States appear in the top twenty. The index, says experts, is not perfect since it depends wholly on the number of deaths and the destruction of property. If survivors were included African nations would certainly appear on the list, according to Dr. Saleemul Haq, chief of the climate change cell of the International Institute of Environment and Development. "Millions of people, who survived extreme weather events and who are suffering across the globe, were not taken into the account," Haq told The Daily Star. Due to its particular susceptibility to extreme weather and rising sea levels, Bangladesh has demanded 15 percent of any fund made available for developing nations to adapt to climate change. During the last 18 years 11,000 extreme weather events killed 600,000 people worldwide. Related articles Nations vulnerable to global warming present demands: carbon levels below 350ppm and billions in aid (11/10/2009) A group of nations especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change have released a declaration calling for developed countries to keep CO2 emission below 350 parts per million (ppm) and to give 1.5 percent of their gross domestic product to aid developing nations in adapting to the myriad impacts of climate change. Powerful hurricanes may be getting stronger due to warmer seas (09/03/2008) Warming climate is causing the strongest hurricanes to strengthen and more moderate storms to stay the same, claims a new study published in Nature. However the data on which research is based is already facing fierce criticism. Ecomigration: global warming will increase environmental refugees (11/28/2007) Climate change could spawn the largest-ever migration of environmental refugees due to intensifying droughts, storms and floods, according to a new study published in Human Ecology.
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