The United States had 167,000 people exposed to floods in a average year, the most for any developed nation, putting it 18th on a ranking of more than 160 nations.
美国每年有16.7万人受洪灾影响,居于发达国家之首,在160多个国家中位居第18名。
The U.N. panel of climate scientists said last year that global warming would lead to more risks of floods, heatwaves, storms, downpours, landslides, air pollution, water scarcity, sea level rise and storm surges.
联合国气候小组的科学家去年表示,全球气候变暖使发生洪灾、热浪、风暴、暴雨、山体滑坡、空气污染、水资源短缺、海平面上涨、风暴潮的危险性增加。
Thursday's study estimated that $96 billion of annual global gross domestic product was exposed to river floods every year, led by India on $14 billion and Bangladesh on $5.4 billion. This amount could rise to $521 billion by 2030. it said.
据该报告估计,每年全球因洪灾或会损失大约960亿美元生产总值,印度损失最高(140亿美元),其次是孟加拉共和国(54亿美元)。并且这个数字在2030年会升至5210亿美元。
"There will be a huge increase in risk, especially in South East Asia," Hessel Winsemius, an author of the study at Dutch independent research institute Deltares, told Reuters.
该报告的一位作者、独立研究所荷兰三角洲研究所(Deltares)的埃塞尔•文塞缪斯(Hessel Winsemius)告诉路透社:“灾害会大幅增加,特别是东南亚。”
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