'Grave findings' in UN report highlight need for urgent global action against climate change: Amy Khor

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SINGAPORE: The 'grave findings' of a major United Nations (UN) report point to the need for global action against climate change, said Dr Amy ...

SINGAPORE: The"grave findings" of a major United Nations report point to the need for global action against climate change, said Dr Amy Khor, Senior Minister of State for the Environment and Water Resources on Wednesday .

The report also warned that by 2050, coastal megacities and small island nations could experience weather catastrophes every year, instead of once a century.Given the"existential threat" that rising sea levels pose to Singapore, it needs to implement an"island-wide approach" to deal with the issue, said Dr Khor.

Based on different emission scenarios, sea levels in Singapore could rise between 0.29m to 1.02m by 2100, said the Centre for Climate Research Singapore's director Professor Erland Kallen. He was quoting findings from the second national climate change projections, which were released by the CCRS in 2015.

 

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