HomeNews FeaturesMOBILISE project to fight SL’s climate change vulnerability MOBILISE project to fight SL’s climate change vulnerability 28 December 2020 01:59 am - 0
Using state-of-the art touch table Prof. Terrance Fernando explaining how the MOBILISE project works
During a 20 year research, in 2018 Sri Lanka was ranked second in a global index among the most affected countries by extreme weather conditions. The 2019 Long-Term Climate Risk Index, released at the annual climate summit in Poland by Germanwatch, listed the island nation after Puerto Rico, the worst affected country in the world which recorded nearly 3000 deaths due to natural disasters. The Index had analysed as to what extent the countries have been affected by impacts of weather-related catastrophies such as floods, landslides, storms, heat waves from 1998 to 2017.