The 10 countries most threatened by climate change

The expected costs by climate change are to draw a framework increasingly grim for people from all over the world.

In his sixth climate change Vulnerability Index, the risk consulting firm Maplecroft revealed the countries with greater susceptibility to being affected by warming in 2015.

To develop their analyses, researchers evaluated 193 countries according to three factors: the ability of Nations to combat the effects of climate change, exposure to temperature extremes, and the sensitivity of the population to these exposures in areas such as health and agricultural dependence.

These countries were marked according to their level of risk â€" extreme, high, medium or low, showing a numerical rating for each one of them.

According to the report provided to The Huffington Post, the most extreme values arise in Bangladesh (1), Guinea-Bissau (2) and Sierra Leone (3rd). In all the towns in all the world, Dhaka (capital of Bangladesh) and the Indian metropolis of Mumbai are those that present a higher risk in relation to the impact of climate change.

Despite the high level of pollution, China is not considered one of the Nations with extreme risk. Nevertheless, the researchers assigned a high risk to the Asian country, placing it in the 61st position.

On the opposite side, is Northern Europe, such as Ireland, Norway and Iceland. Its low risk may be related to ambitious energy and climate objectives proposed by the Environment Ministers of the countries of this region.

A report presented earlier this year warns that the American coasts will have a higher risk, compared with other parts of the country. However, the Maplecroft index indicates that the United States of America, as a whole, have a relatively low risk, standing in the 158 position.

Last month, the United Nations announced support plans for the preparation of a study, a year, which would investigate the economic benefits in combating climate change. The results will come out in September 2014, presented at International Conference on this issue.

See the list of the 10 countries most threatened by climate change:

1.Bangladesh

2. Guinea Bissau

3. Sierra Leone

4.Haiti

5. South Sudan

6.Nigéria

7. Democratic Republic of the Congo

8.Cambodja

9.Filipinas

10.Etiópia

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