PARIS — Of the 100 cities worldwide most vulnerable to environmental hazards all but one are in Asia, and four-fifths are in India or China, according to a risk assessment published Friday.
Across the globe, more than 400 large cities with a total population of 1.5 billion are at “high” or “extreme” risk due to some mixture of life-shortening pollution, dwindling water supplies, deadly heat waves, natural disasters and climate change, the report found.
The sinking megacity of Jakarta — plagued by pollution, flooding and heat waves, with worse to come — topped the ranking.
But India, home to 13 of the world’s 20 most risk-laden cities, may face the most daunting future of…
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