INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Bangkok, Amsterdam and Melbourne stand to be the cities most hit by climate change by 2050, according to new analysis.Rising sea levels
caused by an increase in global temperatures will hit Thailand's capital harder than any other, the Nestpick 2050 Climate Change City Index
says.The impact will be nearly 100 times worse than other coastal cities like Oslo and St Petersburg, it said.Amsterdam and Ho Chi Minh City
in Vietnam face similar levels of impact, the study claims, which used a set of recognised coastal projections and climate risk
analytics.Cardiff was the fourth city most at risk from rising sea levels and London was the seventh, out of the 85 cities looked
at.Melbourne, meanwhile, faces the greatest threat from the increased need for and availability of water, Nestpick's analysis found.The
study presents grim reading for residents of many countries, or visitors to them, where the climate already presents challenges.Many
countries that are already insufferably hot in summer face temperature rises that will make life outside air conditioned environments even
tougher.Nestpick says city planners will need to get to grips with the predicted changes in order to allow life to go on as normal.Omer
Kucukdere, the firm's founder and CEO, said: "A number of the cities which will undergo the most drastic changes in climate over the next
three decades are some of the most popular destinations with expats and contractors looking for opportunities abroad."Millennials, Gen Z-ers
and those even younger will increasingly need to keep climate change in mind when searching for the city they would like to eventually
settle in."While the UK Environmental Agency is planning to spend billions to tackle flooding in London, and the Dutch have built the
Maeslantkering storm surge barrier, many nations may not have the capital to put such expensive measures in place, or may not even support
the idea of funding countermeasures in the first place."The study found the city that faced the highest increase in temperature between now
and 2050 was Ljubljana in Slovenia, where the average will rise by 3.53C.But many major American and European cities were also in line for
similar rises in temperature.Several cities would see their climate type change altogether as a result of the temperature rise, with many
