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According to a recent survey researchers conducted by using AI technology, more than 300 million people will suffer from at least a flood every year after 2050 unless carbon dioxide emissions are reduced drastically and breakwaters are reinforced.

Asia is expected to be a region prone to the greatest change.

Indonesia is sensing such danger. It is foreseen that more than 1 500 islands of the country will be submerged by 2050 and therefore 23 million people will be exposed to danger.

The researchers said that the recent research result might have underestimated the danger as it was based on the premise that countries across the world will reduce carbon dioxide emissions as they endorsed in the Paris agreement on climate change, and asserted that more than 640 million may be exposed to threat from the sea level rise by 2100 in the worst case when all the nations fail to fulfil the agreement.

The sea level rise has very serious consequences.

Several islands that were not greatly affected by climate-related disasters in the past have annually suffered dozens of floods in recent years.

In 2023, the Pacific region witnessed more than 34 cases of typhoons, floods and other disasters which killed 200-odd people.

The island country of Tuvalu with an average elevation of 1-2 metres is in danger of total submersion in the sea. Lagos of Nigeria will reportedly be a place where humans cannot live any longer in the late 21st century due to the sea level rise caused by climate change. This means that a whole city in Africa might disappear from the map.

At present, sea level is steadily rising due to ever-worsening global warming.

Ice on the land melted by global warming flows into the sea. It is one of the main causes of the sea level rise.

According to experts, sea level will rapidly rise, even if a miracle of restricting temperature rise by global warming to 1.5℃ is worked, and it will have devastating effects on humankind.

The reality shows that to take measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions is an urgent issue which brooks no further delay.