The Greater Mekong is one of the most vulnerable places on earth to the impacts of climate change.
Climate change in the Mekong
The 2008 flood of the Mekong River at Vientiane, Laos, recorded the highest water levels at Vientiane since records began in 1913.
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What will happen?
Greater variability of rainfall, rising sea levels, staggering rates of coastal inundation... these are just a few of the impacts expected from climate change in the Greater Mekong.
For the Greater Mekong, climate change compounds existing and projected threats affecting the region’s people, biodiversity and natural resources.
This is likely to have cascading effects, for example, water scarcity leading to reduced agricultural productivity, leading to food scarcity, unemployment and poverty.
These impacts, among others, will profoundly affect the region’s globally important biodiversity and ecosystems, which will in turn negatively impact its people and the current substantial economic investments.
Measures must be put in place to ensure the ecological products and services upon which the socio-economic development of this region depends are not degraded or irreversibly lost.
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This is likely to have cascading effects, for example, water scarcity leading to reduced agricultural productivity, leading to food scarcity, unemployment and poverty.
These impacts, among others, will profoundly affect the region’s globally important biodiversity and ecosystems, which will in turn negatively impact its people and the current substantial economic investments.
Measures must be put in place to ensure the ecological products and services upon which the socio-economic development of this region depends are not degraded or irreversibly lost.
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Greater Mekong Climate Change map
