In her keynote address at Ecosperity Week 2021, Madam Halimah stressed that Singapore is not immune to the effects of climate change either.
The world is living amid a climate crisis whose impact could be more severe than the Covid-19 pandemic, says President Halimah Yacob.
Among Asean nations, a combination of long coastlines and heavily populated low-lying areas makes the region vulnerable to rising sea levels caused by global warming, she adds. A one-metre rise in sea level, for example, will affect at least 89 million people in the region, as they live in areas with frequent coastal flooding.
