Le 2e jour (12 nov.) de la COP-19 à Varsovie a été marqué par la sortie du Global Climate Risk Index qui mesure l’exposition et la vulnérabilité aux événements extrêmes, mesuré à partir du nombre de victimes et des coûts économiques.
▻http://germanwatch.org/de/download/8551.pdf
More than 530,000 people died as a direct result of almost 15,000 extreme weather events, and losses of more than USD 2.5 trillion (in PPP) occurred from 1993 to 2012 globally.
The Climate Risk Index for 1993-2012: the 10 most affected countries:
1/ Honduras; 2/ Myanmar; 3/ Haiti; 4/ Nicaragua; 5/ Bangladesh; 6/ Vietnam; 7/ Philippines; 8/ Dominican Republic; 8/ Mongolia; 10/ Thailand; 10/ Guatemala
The Climate Risk Index for 2012: the 10 most affected countries:
1/Haiti; 2/Philippines; 3/Pakistan; 4/Madagascar; 5/Fiji; 6/Serbia; 7/Samoa; 8/Bosnia/Herzegovina; 9/Russia; 10/Nigeria.
Particularly in relative terms, poorer developing countries are hit much harder. These results emphasise the particular vulnerability of poor countries to climatic risks, despite the fact that the absolute monetary damages are much higher in richer countries. Loss of life and personal hardship is also much more widespread especially in the low-income countries.
Evidemment tout n’est pas mesurable avec cet index. En l’occurrence, il est calculé à partir d’événements précis (inondations, ouragans, etc.), il ignore donc, par exemple, le déclin à long terme des précipitations dans certains pays d’Afrique, qui a pourtant de graves conséquences.
►http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/11/warsaw-day-2-extreme-weather-who-suffers-most
Christoph Bals, policy director of Germanwatch, said: “The report illustrates that the self-help capacity of countries is being overwhelmed by the scale of the climate disasters they are facing.
“These are the countries that have contributed least to climate change because they have tiny emissions, yet they are the countries that are suffering most from it. Developed countries that have caused the problem have a moral responsibility to help.”
