Coast Flooding: Developed & Developing

• Australia

  IPCC estimates a sea level rise of 28-98cm by 2100
• 1m rise would flood…

  • 116,000 houses = $72 billion
  • $87 billion commercial property
  • $67 billion road and rail infrastructure
  • 5 power station
  • 258 emergency service stations
  • 75 hospitals
  • 44 water + sewage plants
• Social Impacts for Australia

  • Break up of communities
  • Loss of livelihoods: fishing, tourism (employs 8% of Australia’s work force)
• Environmental Impacts for Australia

  • Corals forming the Great Barrier Reef would die out if they can’t grow as fast as the rising sea levels (coral cannot grow below 50m underwater) — loss of ecosystem + tourism