Climate change and food
security
Asia
“In South Asia, climate change shocks to food production and seasonal water availability appear likely to confront populations with ongoing and multiple challenges to secure access to safe drinking water, sufficient water for irrigation and hydropower production, and adequate cooling capacity for thermal power production. Potential impact hotspots such as Bangladesh are projected to be confronted by increasing challenges from extreme river floods, more intense tropical cyclones, rising sea level, and very high temperatures.” World Bank June 2013 Turn Down the Heat Regional Impacts, p. xxii
South Asia: A potential change in the regularity of the monsoon season in South Asia could also cause a crisis. The floods which hit Pakistan in 2010 affecting 20 million people could become common.
Thailand: Rising sea levels mean that Bangkok could be flooded by the 2030s
South Asia: A potential change in the regularity of the monsoon season in South Asia could also cause a crisis. The floods which hit Pakistan in 2010 affecting 20 million people could become common.
Thailand: Rising sea levels mean that Bangkok could be flooded by the 2030s