TNPSC Thervupettagam

Ecological Threat Report 2023

November 8 , 2023 382 days 491 0
  • The report focuses on four categories of threat: Food insecurity, natural disasters, demographic pressure and water risk.
  • The number of people residing in countries facing severe ecological threats will go up to 2.8 billion by 2050.
  • More than half of the hotspot countries facing a severe threat are in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • The report covered 221 countries and independent territories, which were divided into 3,594 sub-national areas.
  • It is accounting for 99.99 percent of the world’s population.
  • Of these countries and territories, 66 face at least one severe ecological threat.
  • Of the 30 hotspot countries that face severe ecological threats and have low levels of societal resilience, 19 are in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • The most at risk countries are Ethiopia, Niger, Somalia and South Sudan, of which Ethiopia and Niger have recently emerged as hotspots.
  • Europe and North America are the only two regions where no country currently faced a severe ecological threat.
  • There are currently 42 countries experiencing severe food insecurity, and nearly four billion people live in areas experiencing high or severe food insecurity.

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