SE Asia - A 4 degree world: Environmental impacts (sitios de interés)
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Sea levels could rise as much as 80 cm by the end of the century. Longer term, 4 º C (7 º F) would result in a much higher rise in sea level.
Sea level increases are likely to be even greater at low latitudes, disproportionately affecting tropical islands and low-lying regions such as Bangladesh.
For the population at 2075, a mean sea-level rise of 53 cm means that up to an additional 150 million people per year would be flooded due to extreme sea levels. Three-quarters of these people live in Asia. Up to 56 million people would be flooded along the Indian Ocean coast, 25 million along the east Asian coast and 33 million people would be flooded along the South-East Asian coast.
Other vulnerable regions include Africa, Caribbean islands, Indian Ocean islands and Pacific small islands.