Posted on July 9, 2008 in Latest News
How can be a country affected most by global warming without causing it? We can see it in the case of Comoros Islands. Comoros Islands are an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, between Medagascar and Mozambique. It is a group of islands which can become a tourists’ destination, but politically unstable. Shockingly, a new study indicates that Comoros Islands is the most vulnerable country to the consequences of climate change or global warming.
Attributes of The Study:
This study is produced by the Maplecroft, a Consultancy of Britain which has a good rapport in risk reporting. For this ‘Climate Change Risk Report’ the environmental statisticians were conducted a broad examination on different sectors of a country. Considering a nation’s economy, population, agriculture, poverty, development, governance, infrastructure and health, it published the rankings for vulnerability to global warming.
Methodology of The Study:
A figure is taken on measuring the above sectors of each country at the scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the most vulnerable and 10 the most secure. In this context, Comoros scores 1.21, a figure which indicates a dreadful situation of Comoros in decades ahead. On the other side Comoros also scores lowest in the world on the report’s index of emissions of carbon dioxide. It states that Comoros is suffering most from global warming, but it does nothing to cause it.
One of the report’s authors said, “Comoros is struggling with a high pressure on natural resources and has very lower capability to adapt to the situation of climate changes. That ability to adapt is effectively limited by factors such as poor land quality, lower crop production and yields. These all factors combinedly shown their affect along with the water stress and growing population.”
The global warming may affect in different aspects in future of Coromos. The consequences of climate change results excessive storms, rising, agriculture failure and incresing sea levels.
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