ADEN THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE, INTERNATIONAL REPORT SAYS

SANA'A, Oct. 05 (Saba) - Aden, Yemen's southern port city, is one of
the world's 20 cities being threatened by climate change that may be
hit by typhoons and rising sea levels, a report by the
Washington-based Center for Global Development has said.

The report noted the estimation was based on three key factors which
were a one-meter sea level rise, the increase in severity of storms
that occur once every 100 years by 10 percent and the U.N. forecasts
on population growth.

Other Arab cities besides Aden included in the report were Egypt's
Bour Saeed and Alexandria.

While other world cities were Nigerian Lagos, Liberian Monrovia,
Pakistani Karachi, Indonesian Jakarta, Bangladesh Khulna , Indian
Calcutta, Thai Bangkok, Ivorian Coast Abidjan, Vietnamese Ho Chi
Minh, Myanmar Yangon, Guinean Konakry, Angolan Lawanda, Brazilian
Rio de Janeiro and Senegalese Dakar.

Aden is Yemen's business capital that covers 750 square kilometers
and has 3 percent of Yemen's pupation, about 589419 people.

The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a not-for-profit think
tank based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on international
development.

It was founded in November 2001 by former senior US official Edward
W. Scott, director of the Peterson Institute for International
Economics, C. Fred Bergsten, and Nancy Birdsall.

Birdsall, the former Vice President of the Inter-American
Development Bank and the former Director of the Policy Research
Department at the World Bank, became the first President of CGD.

CGD's stated mission is "to reduce global poverty and inequality by
encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries
through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy
community.

Recently, Foreign Policy Magazine's Think-Tank Index listed CGD as
one of the top 15 think-tanks in the US.

The Center considers itself to be a 'think and do' tank, with an
emphasis on producing research that is channeled into practical
policy proposals.

CGD is responsible for a number of products, websites and studies.

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